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Indian political thought : a reader / [edited by] Aakash Singh and Silika Mohapatra. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. - xvi, 309 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Content:
The poverty of Indian political theory / Bhikhu Parekh;
Gandhi's Ambedkar / Ramachandra Guha;
The quest for justice: evoking Gandhi / Neera Chandhoke;
Tagore and his India / Amartya Sen;
Is secularism alien to Indian civilization? / Romila Thapar;
Secularism revisited: doctrine of destiny or political ideology? / T. N. Madan;
The distinctiveness of Indian secularism / Rajeev Bhargava;
The blindness of insight: why communalism in India is about caste / Dilip M. Menon;
In search of integration and identity: Indian Muslims since independence / Mushirul Hasan;
Sikh fundamentalism: translating history into theory / Harjot Oberoi;
Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment / Akeel Bilgrami;
Scientific temper: arguments for an Indian Enlightenment / Meera Nanda;
Outline of a revisionist theory of modernity / Sudipta Kaviraj;
Reconstructing childhood: a critique of the ideology of adulthood / Ashis Nandy;
Subaltern studies as postcolonial criticism / Gyan Prakash;
The commitment to theory / Homi Bhabha;
The justice of human rights in Indian constitutionalism / Upendra Baxi;
Emancipatory feminist theory in postcolonial India: unmasking the ruse of liberal internationalism / Ratna Kapur;
Righting wrongs / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak;
The poverty of Western political theory: concluding remarks on concepts like 'community' East and West / Partha Chatterjee

ISBN: 9780415562935 (hardback) 0415562937 (hardback) 9780415562942 (pbk.) 0415562945 (pbk.) 9780203854945 (ebook) 0203854942 (ebook)

LCCN: 2009039415

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA990856 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015371141 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political science--Philosophy.--India
Politics and culture--India.
Political customs and rites--India.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: JA84.I4 / I525 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 320.0954