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Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire
C. A. Bayly
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Description for Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire
Paperback. One of the world's greatest historians shows how Indians appropriated liberalism to argue for rights, representation and a better society. Series: Ideas in Context. Num Pages: 404 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFCX; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 642.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
Series
Ideas in Context
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107601475
SKU
V9781107601475
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About C. A. Bayly
Professor Sir Christopher Bayly, KB, LittD, FBA, is Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. He is currently Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge. He has published works on the history of the city of Allahabad in north India, Indian merchant communities, empire and information ... Read more
Reviews for Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire
'A fine study of the circulation and transformation of liberal agents, ideas and institutions in India from the 1820s. His extensive bibliography in both Indian and English scholarship will doubtless enable further studies of trans- and inter-culturation, liberalization and the nineteenth century.' Regenia Gagnier, Victorian Studies