Modern Indian nationalist thought has dealt with political ideas such as freedom, equality, liberty, democracy, so on and so forth. The idea of freedom received enough attention on the part of most of the modern Indian political thinkers. However, the idea of freedom as envisaged by the nationalist thinkers did not receive positive response from the other stream of modern Indian thought. Dalit-Bahujan political thinkers questioned the narration of freedom as propagated by the nationalist thinkers. Nationalist thinkers aspired for universal values and at the same time reaffirmed ancient religious principles. Such effort was questioned and doubted by the other thinkers of modern India. Thus, one can find different narrations of freedom, such as social, economic and political. The social categories such as caste, class and gender became bases for their narration on the idea of freedom. The ideas and arguments of B. G. Tilak, M. K. Gandhi, Pandita Ramabai, Jyotiba Phule, B. R. Ambedkar E. M. S. Namboodripad and others would help in larger understanding of the idea of freedom.

现代印度民族主义思想处理的政治思想包括自由，平等，自由，民主等等。自由的观念在大多数现代印度政治思想家中得到了足够的重视。但是，民族主义思想家所设想的自由思想并没有得到印度现代思想的另一种积极回应。达利特-巴胡詹（Dalit-Bahujan）政治思想家质疑民族主义思想家传播的自由叙事。民族主义思想家渴望实现普世价值，同时重申了古老的宗教原则。这种努力遭到了现代印度其他思想家的质疑和怀疑。因此，人们可以找到不同的自由叙事，例如社会，经济和政治。社会等级，例如种姓，阶级和性别成为他们讲述自由思想的基础。BG Tilak，MK Gandhi，Pandita Ramabai，Jyotiba Phule，BR Ambedkar EMS Namboodripad等人的思想和论点将有助于加深对自由思想的理解。