Waiting for the people : the idea of democracy in Indian anticolonial thought / Nazmul Sultan.
2024
JQ281 .S85 2024
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Waiting for the people : the idea of democracy in Indian anticolonial thought / Nazmul Sultan.
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9780674295070 electronic book
0674295072 electronic book
9780674290372 hardcover
0674295072 electronic book
9780674290372 hardcover
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024.
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©2024
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English
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1 online resource (vi, 301 pages)
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JQ281 .S85 2024
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320.454
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Nazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of peoplehood and self-rule. Indians contested British claims that the ""backwardness"" of the Indian people offered a democratic justification for imperial domination.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
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Contents
Epigraph
Introduction: Waiting for the People
Chapter One: A Global Hierarchy of Peoples: The Rise of Developmentalism in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Two: The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India
Chapter Three: The Colonial Paradox of Peoplehood: Swaraj and the Gandhian Moment
Chapter Four: Between the Many and the One: The Anticolonial Federalist Challenge
Chapter Five: To "Carry" the People through History: Postcolonial Founding and the Idea of Independence
Chapter Six: The Two Times of the People: The Boundary Problem, or the Burden of Unity
Conclusion: The Futures of Anticolonial Political Thought
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Epigraph
Introduction: Waiting for the People
Chapter One: A Global Hierarchy of Peoples: The Rise of Developmentalism in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Two: The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India
Chapter Three: The Colonial Paradox of Peoplehood: Swaraj and the Gandhian Moment
Chapter Four: Between the Many and the One: The Anticolonial Federalist Challenge
Chapter Five: To "Carry" the People through History: Postcolonial Founding and the Idea of Independence
Chapter Six: The Two Times of the People: The Boundary Problem, or the Burden of Unity
Conclusion: The Futures of Anticolonial Political Thought
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index