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Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India

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Description for Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India Hardback. What India's founders derived from Western political traditions is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge traditions of 2,500 years influenced these men. Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, showing how five founders turned to classical texts to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTB; HBTR; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 680.

What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought.

Taking five of the most important founding figures—Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R. Ambedkar—Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
676g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674048959
SKU
V9780674048959
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-13

About Ananya Vajpeyi
Ananya Vajpeyi is Fellow and Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.

Reviews for Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India
Ananya Vajpeyi’s Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India radically advances our understanding of political traditions in a major non-western country.
Pankaj Mishra
The Guardian
Most historians credit liberal ideas from Britain, absorbed by the Western-oriented Indian elite, with giving birth to modern India. (The Congress Party of Gandhi and Nehru was founded at the suggestion ... Read more

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