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Waiting for the people : the idea of democracy in Indian anticolonial thought / Nazmul Sultan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sultan, Nazmul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--India.
- Democracy.
- Sovereignty.
- Liberalism--India--History.
- Liberalism.
- Self-determination, National--India.
- Self-determination, National.
- Anti-imperialist movements--India.
- Anti-imperialist movements.
- Decolonization--India.
- Decolonization.
- Postcolonialism--India.
- Postcolonialism.
- India--Politics and government--19th century.
- India.
- India--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Nazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of peoplehood and self-rule. Indians contested British claims that the "backwardness" of the Indian people offered a democratic justification for imperial domination.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction: Waiting for the People
- Chapter One: A Global Hierarchy of Peoples: The Rise of Developmentalism in the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter Two: The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India
- Chapter Three: The Colonial Paradox of Peoplehood: Swaraj and the Gandhian Moment
- Chapter Four: Between the Many and the One: The Anticolonial Federalist Challenge
- Chapter Five: To "Carry" the People through History: Postcolonial Founding and the Idea of Independence
- Chapter Six: The Two Times of the People: The Boundary Problem, or the Burden of Unity
- Conclusion: The Futures of Anticolonial Political Thought
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-29504-8
- 0-674-29507-2
- OCLC:
- 1411306845
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