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010 _a 2022059818
020 _a9781009305594
_q(Hardback)
040 _aDLC
_beng
_cDLC
_erda
042 _apcc
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_223/eng/20230118
100 1 _aParasher, Tejas,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRadical democracy in modern Indian political thought /
_cTejas Parasher, University of California, Los Angeles.
250 _aFirst Edition.
263 _a2305
264 1 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2023.
300 _ax, 203 pages
_c22 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
365 _bRs. 9299.00
490 0 _aIdeas in context
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aPopular 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aDemocracy
_zIndia.
650 0 _aRepresentative government and representation
_zIndia.
650 0 _aSelf-determination, National
_zIndia.
650 0 _aPolitical science
_zIndia
_xPhilosophy.
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_cBK
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