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Parasher, Tejas,

Radical democracy in modern Indian political thought / Tejas Parasher, University of California, Los Angeles. - First Edition. - x, 203 pages 22 cm. - Ideas in context .

Includes index.

Popular Sovereignty and the End of Empire -- "The Genius of the People": The 1923 Constitution of Mysore -- "A Vast Subterranean Democracy": Pluralism in the 1920s -- "A Living Union": The Project of Gandhian Democracy -- Popular Sovereignty, and the Indian Founding -- "Towards Total Revolution": The Aftermath of Independence -- Conclusion: The Challenge of Representative Democracy.

"Drawing on figures ranging from Gandhi to the leaders of the Indian socialist movement, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought explores the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire and reinterprets the history of representative democracy in South Asia"--

ISBN: 9781009305594

LCCN: 2022059818

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Democracy--India.
Representative government and representation--India.
Self-determination, National--India.
Political science--Philosophy.--India

Dewey Class. No.: 320.954