Political Ideas in Modern India: Thematic ExplorationsThe volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way.In Political Ideas in Modern India, an outstanding group of social and political theorists offers a creative reinterpretation of the ideas and principles that have shaped modern Indian society and state. The ideas interpreted or analysed include rights, freedoms, equality, social justice, constitutional rule, swaraj, swadeshi, satyagraha, class war, socialism, Hindutva, Hind Swaraj, syncretic culture, composite nationalism, and international peace and justice. |
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements | xi |
P Chattopadhyaya | xxiii |
ON SOCIAL REFORM AND RADICAL POLITICS | 1 |
Virtue Vice and the Origins of Militant Nationalist Thought | 26 |
DalitBahujan Discourse in Modern India | 46 |
B R Ambedkar and the Troubled Times of Citizenship | 73 |
HISTORY LITERATURE AND POLITICAL | 91 |
Some Pathways from | 121 |
The Gandhian | 221 |
Spirituality and Politics in Coomaraswamy Radhakrishnan | 238 |
An Alternative Transcultural Ideal | 285 |
Secular Liberalism and Relativism | 307 |
Social Justice in the Mandal Debate 1990 | 326 |
Feminist Critique in Contemporary India | 340 |
A Look at Communist Interventions in India | 393 |
Socialist Discourse in India | 405 |
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