Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and EmpireOne of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai Naoroji in the 1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the 1900s. This powerful new study shows how the ideas of constitutional, and later 'communitarian' liberals influenced, but were also rejected by their opponents and successors, including Nehru, Gandhi, Indian socialists, radical democrats and proponents of Hindu nationalism. Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developing field of global intellectual history, demonstrating that the ideas we associate with major Western thinkers – Mills, Comte, Spencer and Marx – were received and transformed by Indian intellectuals in the light of their own traditions to demand justice, racial equality and political representation. In doing so, Christopher Bayly throws fresh light on the nature and limitations of European political thought and re-examines the origins of Indian democracy. |
Contents
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Chapter 1 The social and intellectual contexts of early Indian liberalism c17801840 | 26 |
constitutions revolutions and juries | 42 |
civil society and the press | 73 |
benign sociology and statistical liberalism | 104 |
Bengal and Bombay c18401880 | 132 |
historicism race society and economy c18401880 | 161 |
Asian critics and Victorian sages to 1914 | 188 |
Indian liberalism transformed c18901916 | 245 |
Indian discourse and controversy 19191935 | 276 |
Chapter 11 Antiliberalism counterliberalism and liberalisms survival 19201950 | 311 |
lineages of liberalism in India | 343 |
Glossary | 358 |
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north Indian Hindus and the Muslim dilemma | 214 |
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