Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought

Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought

Author: Tejas Parasher

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781009305600

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"Drawing on figures ranging from Gandhi to the leaders of the Indian socialist movement, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought explores the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire and reinterprets the history of representative democracy in South Asia"--


Radical Equality

Radical Equality

Author: Aishwary Kumar

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2015-06-17

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 080479426X

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B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two figures whose thought and legacies have most strongly shaped the contours of Indian democracy, are typically considered antagonists who held irreconcilable views on empire, politics, and society. As such, they are rarely studied together. This book reassesses their complex relationship, focusing on their shared commitment to equality and justice, which for them was inseparable from anticolonial struggles for sovereignty. Both men inherited the concept of equality from Western humanism, but their ideas mark a radical turn in humanist conceptions of politics. This study recovers the philosophical foundations of their thought in Indian and Western traditions, religious and secular alike. Attending to moments of difficulty in their conceptions of justice and their languages of nonviolence, it probes the nature of risk that radical democracy's desire for inclusion opens within modern political thought. In excavating Ambedkar and Gandhi's intellectual kinship, Radical Equality allows them to shed light on each other, even as it places them within a global constellation of moral and political visions. The story of their struggle against inequality, violence, and empire thus transcends national boundaries and unfolds within a universal history of citizenship and dissent.


Political Thought in Modern India

Political Thought in Modern India

Author: Thomas Pantham

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 1986-06-07

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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The twenty stimulating and original essays in this volume provide a comprehensive analysis of the main strands of modern Indian political thought. The thinkers dicussed are Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Saraswati, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Ranade, Phule, Tilak, B R Ambedkar, Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, M N Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru and Gandhi. Separate essays are devoted to the Hindu and Muslim traditions in Indian political thought, Hindu nationalism, and the ideologies of the Communist and Sarvodaya movements. A significant feature of these essays is that they study each thinker or movement in the relevant socio-historical context as also examine the consequences and impact of modern Indian political theories, These are analysed from a world-hostorical and, to some extent, a political economy perspective. The essays in this collection highlight two major streams in modern Indian political thought—one which favoured the adoption or adaptation of western political traditions and the other which sought to evolve indigenous or alternative formulations. The overall conclusion that emerges from this volume is that in order to formulate an adequate political philosophy for the modern age, both the western and Indian traditions have to be taken into account. In this context, some of the essays highlight the contemporary global relevance of Gandhi’s socio-political ideas. This book is a major contribution to modern political philosophy. It will be of great value to students and teacher of political science.


Revisiting Modern Indian Thought

Revisiting Modern Indian Thought

Author: Suratha Kumar Malik

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-08-12

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1000416887

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This book presents a comprehensive account of the socio-political thought of prominent modern Indian thinkers. It offers a clear understanding of the basic concepts and their contributions on contemporary issues. Key features: Explores the nature, scope, relevance, context, and theoretical approaches of modern Indian thought and overviews its development through an in-depth study of the lives and ideas of major thinkers. Examines critical themes such as nationalism, swaraj, democracy and state, liberalism, revolution, socialism, constitutionalism, secularism, satyāgraha, swadeshi, nationbuilding, humanism, ethics in politics, democratic decentralisation, religion and politics, social transformation and emancipation, and social and gender justice under sections on liberal-reformist, moderate-Gandhian, and leftist-socialist thought. Brings together insightful essays on Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Dayānanda Saraswati, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Pandita Ramabai, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Dadabhai Naoroji, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Ram Manohar Lohia, Babu Jagjivan Ram, Vinoba Bhave, Acharya Narendra Deva, Manabendra Nath Roy, and Jayaprakash Narayan. Traces different perspectives on the way India’s composite cultures, traditions, and conditions inf luenced the evolution of their thought and legacy. With its accessible style, this book will be useful to teachers, students, and scholars of political science, modern Indian political thought, modern Indian history, and political philosophy. It will also interest those associated with exclusion studies, political sociology, sociology, and South Asian studies.


Modern Indian Political Thought

Modern Indian Political Thought

Author: Bidyut Chakrabarty

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-29

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1000963535

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This book is an unconventional articulation of the political thinking in India in a refreshingly creative manner in more than one way. Empirically, the book becomes innovative by providing an analytically more grasping contextual interpretation of Indian political thought that evolved during the nationalist struggle against colonialism. Insightfully, it attempts to unearth the hitherto unexplored yet vital subaltern strands of political thinking in India as manifested through the mode of numerous significant socio-economic movements operating side by side and sometimes as part of the mainstream nationalist movement. This book articulates the main currents of Indian political thought by locating the text and themes of the thinkers within the socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts in which such ideas were conceptualised and articulated. The book also tries to analytically grasp the influences of the various British constitutional devices that appeared as the responses of the colonial government to redress the genuine socio-economic grievances of the various sections of Indian society. The book breaks new ground in not only articulating the main currents of Indian political thought in an analytically more sound approach of context-driven discussion but also provokes new research in the field by charting a new course in grasping and articulating the political thought in India. This volume will be useful to the students, researchers and faculty working in the fields of political science, political sociology, political economy and post-colonial contemporary Indian politics in particular. It will also be an invaluable and interesting reading for those interested in South Asian studies.


Power To The People (2 Vols.): The Political Thought Of M.K. Gandhi, M.N. Roy And Jayaprakash Narayan

Power To The People (2 Vols.): The Political Thought Of M.K. Gandhi, M.N. Roy And Jayaprakash Narayan

Author: R. M. Pal

Publisher:

Published: 2007-10-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788121209274

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The book attempts to bring out, through a selection of the seminal writings of M.K. Gandhi, M.N. Roy and Jayaprakash Narayan as well as of critical commentaries on them, the essentials of their intellectual development and their contribution to contemporary Indian political thought. These writings constitute a significant part of the historical debates and contestations of ideas among the thinkers of the nationalist and the internationalist movements of the first half of the twentieth century. Contents: - Vol - Contents: Preface, R.M. Pal, Acknowledgements, Contributors, . Introduction, Meera Verma, M.K. Gandhi, . Hind Swaraj (0), M.K. Gandhi, . Traditional Influences on Gandhi, A.L. Basham, . Gandhi s Writings in Harijan, Bidyut Chakrabarty, . Critique of Modern Civilization, Bhiku Parekh, . Gandhi s Idea of Nation in Hind Swaraj, Anthony J. Parel, . Sources and Implications of Sarvodaya in, Gandhi s Philosophy, Anil Dutta Mishra, . Gandhi and the Politics of Decentralization, Jayaprakash Narayan, . Beyond Liberal Democracy: Thinking with, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Pantham, Contents, 0. Problematizing Modernity: Gandhi s, Decentering Impulse, Ronald J. Terchek, . Bringing Gandhi Back to Independent India, T.K. Oommen, . The Spinning Wheel and the Seed: Gandhi s, Legacy, Humanity s Hope, Vandana Shiva, . Morality in Political Practice - Marx and, Gandhi, M.N. Roy, . Mr. Gandhi - An Analysis, Santi Devi (Evelyn Roy), . M.N. Roy and the Mahatma, Sibnarayan Ray vol - Acknowledgement, Contributors, . Introductory Note, M.N. Roy, . Original Draft of Suplementary Theses on, the National and Colonial Question (0), M.N. Roy, . New Humanism: A Manifesto, M.N. Roy:, (a) Liberal Genealogy of Marxism, (b) Marxian Theory of Revolution, (c) A New Political Philosophy, (d) Radical Democracy, (e) Theses, . Draft Constitution of India, M.N. Roy, . Gandhi and Roy: The Interaction of, Ideologies in India, Dennis Dalton, . The Perspective on History, M. Shiviah, . In The Communist O


Political Ideas in Modern India

Political Ideas in Modern India

Author: Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2006-03-31

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 9780761934202

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The 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.