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Indian political thought : a reader / [edited by] Aakash Singh and Silika Mohapatra.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.Description: xvi, 309 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415562935 (hardback)
  • 0415562937 (hardback)
  • 9780415562942 (pbk.)
  • 0415562945 (pbk.)
  • 9780203854945 (ebook)
  • 0203854942 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.0954 22
LOC classification:
  • JA84.I4 I525 2010
Contents:
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
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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