Recovering liberties: Indian thought in the age of liberalism and empire : the Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University of Belfast, 2007

One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai Naoroji in the 1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the 1900s. This powerful new study shows how the ideas of constitutional, and later 'communitarian' l...

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Beteilige Person: Bayly, Christopher Alan 1945-2015 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
Schriftenreihe:Ideas in context 100
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139012140
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139012140
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139012140
Zusammenfassung:One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai Naoroji in the 1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the 1900s. This powerful new study shows how the ideas of constitutional, and later 'communitarian' liberals influenced, but were also rejected by their opponents and successors, including Nehru, Gandhi, Indian socialists, radical democrats and proponents of Hindu nationalism. Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developing field of global intellectual history, demonstrating that the ideas we associate with major Western thinkers – Mills, Comte, Spencer and Marx – were received and transformed by Indian intellectuals in the light of their own traditions to demand justice, racial equality and political representation. In doing so, Christopher Bayly throws fresh light on the nature and limitations of European political thought and re-examines the origins of Indian democracy
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Umfang:1 online resource (x, 383 pages)
ISBN:9781139012140
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139012140