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The present book critically evaluates the educational philosophies of contemporary Indian thinkers belonging to the groups which may be classified as revivalists or neo-vedantic philosophers and those influenced by Western rationalism, humanism and other tendencies. The book consists of eleven chapters, Chapter 1 critically studies Need of philosophical basis of education; Meaning of philosophy; Meaning of education in India and West; Synthetic definition; and Values of indigenous philosophy; Chapter 2 critically summarises the history of Indian philosophy of education; Chapter 3 analytically studies Swami Vivekananda’s philosophy of education; Chapter 4 Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of education; Chapter 5 Swami Dayananda’s philosophy of education; Chapter 6 M.K. Gandhi’s philosophy of education; Chapter 7 R.N. Tagore’s philosophy of education; Chapter 8 S. Radhakrishnan’s philosophy of education; Chapter 9 J.L. Nehru’s philosophy of education; Chapter 10 M.N. Roy’s philosophy of education; and Chapter 11 attempts to arrive at An Ideal Philosophy of Educa¬tion for India Today. This book will certainly be found to evoke interest not only among teachers of philosophy and education but also among researchers, the administrators and the planners in the field of education.