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Waiting for the people : the idea of democracy in Indian anticolonial thought / Nazmul Sultan.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024Description: 301 pages 24 cmContent type:- text
- 9780674296046
- 320.454 23/eng/20230705
Contents:
Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
A Global Hierarchy of Peoples: The Rise of Developmentalism in the Nineteenth Century -- The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India -- The Colonial Paradox of Peoplehood: Swaraj and the Gandhian Moment -- Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty -- To "Carry" the People through History: Postcolonial Founding and the Idea of Independence -- The Two Times of the People: The Boundary Problem, or the Burden of Unity.
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National Law School | Circulation Counter | 320.454 SUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | Recommended by Dr. Manpreet Singh Dillon (Academic Fellow) | 39525 | |
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National Law School | New Arrival - Display Area | 320.454 SUL - 2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | Recommended by Dr. Rinku Lamba | 39553 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Global Hierarchy of Peoples: The Rise of Developmentalism in the Nineteenth Century -- The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India -- The Colonial Paradox of Peoplehood: Swaraj and the Gandhian Moment -- Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty -- To "Carry" the People through History: Postcolonial Founding and the Idea of Independence -- The Two Times of the People: The Boundary Problem, or the Burden of Unity.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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