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Political Ideas in Modern India: Thematic Explorations (History of Science, Philosophy & Culture India) - Hardcover
The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way.
In Political Ideas in Modern India, an outstanding group of social and political theorists offers a creative reinterpretation of the ideas and principles that have shaped modern Indian society and state. The ideas interpreted or analysed include rights, freedoms, equality, social justice, constitutional rule, swaraj, swadeshi, satyagraha, class war, socialism, Hindutva, Hind Swaraj, syncretic culture, composite nationalism, and international peace and justice.
In Political Ideas in Modern India, an outstanding group of social and political theorists offers a creative reinterpretation of the ideas and principles that have shaped modern Indian society and state. The ideas interpreted or analysed include rights, freedoms, equality, social justice, constitutional rule, swaraj, swadeshi, satyagraha, class war, socialism, Hindutva, Hind Swaraj, syncretic culture, composite nationalism, and international peace and justice.
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"The volume is a lucid and veritable treasure of thoughts and actions that has the potential value for theorists concerned with political thought in India, post-colonial thought and comparative political theory." (Pahi Saikia 2007-05-30)
The present work is an attempt to capture the political thoughts of modern India without any pretension of having a comprehensive history. It is part of an even more grandiose scheme of documenting history of the Indian civilization - its culture, science and political thought in a series... (The Statesman)
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The present work is an attempt to capture the political thoughts of modern India without any pretension of having a comprehensive history. It is part of an even more grandiose scheme of documenting history of the Indian civilization - its culture, science and political thought in a series... (The Statesman)
This volume is the second in the ongoing series on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization. It is a thematic exploration of the contextual meanings and configurations of major political ideas and ideals that have shaped the political world of colonial and postcolonial India. Deviating from a thinker-centred or chronological approach, these essays inquire into, and reflect on, the entire wide range of themes and issues in political thought in modern India, including political ideas: rights, freedoms, equality, social justice, constitutional rule, swaraj, swadeshi, satyagraha, class war, socialism, Hindutva, Hind Swaraj, syncretic culture and composite nationalism. This collaborative study explores the way Indian intellectuals encountered colonial modernity and examines how the Indian nation-state came to be constituted as a community of communities. It departs from the prevalent view that Indian Muslims have a unified structure of consciousness and analyzes Gandhi's role in bringing about harmony between Hindus and Muslims. It offers a corrective to the tendency to conflate Gandhian and Hindutva approaches.The volume also offers insights into the way the multi-religious Indian Hindu society gradually embraced the principles of liberal democracy and points out that constitutionalism, law and jurisprudence have not been given due attention by most Indian social and political theorists.It discusses contemporary debates on issues like OBC quotas, gender justice and women's representation and critically examines communist interventions in Indian politics since the 1920s and the role of the peasant masses as the collective agent of historical change in colonial and postcolonial India. Also discussed are the various Indian conceptions of order and justice in international relations.
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- PublisherSAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0761934200
- ISBN 13 9780761934202
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages536
- EditorMehta V R, Pantham Thomas
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