Recovering liberties : Indian thought in the age of liberalism and empire : the Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University of Belfast, 2007 / C.A. Bayly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan), author.

Series:

Ideas in context ; 100.

Ideas in context ; 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--India--History.

Liberalism.

Democracy--India.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 383 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One 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:

Preface

Introduction: The meanings of liberalism in colonial India

The social and intellectual contexts of early Indian liberalism, c. 1780-1840

The advent of liberalism in India : constitutions, revolutions and juries

The advent of liberal thought in India and beyond : civil society and the press

After Rammohan : benign sociology and statistical liberalism

Living as liberals : Bengal and Bombay c. 1840-1880

Thinking as liberals : historicism, race, society, and economy, c. 1840-1880

Giants with feet of clay : Asian critics and Victorian sages to 1914

Liberals in the Desh : north Indian Hindus and the Muslim dilemma

"Communitarianism" : Indian liberalism transformed, c.1890- 1916

Inter-war : Indian discourse and controversy, 1919-1935

Anti-liberalism, 'counter-liberalism' and liberalism's survival, 1920-1950

Conclusion : lineages of liberalism in India.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22968-5

1-139-19982-X

1-280-56846-1

9786613598066

1-139-20573-0

1-139-01214-2

1-139-20354-1

1-139-20652-4

1-139-20213-8

1-139-20494-7

OCLC:

775869478