Recovering liberties Indian thought in the age of liberalism and empire the Wiles lectures given at the Queen`s University of Belfast, 2007

Bayly, C A

Recovering liberties Indian thought in the age of liberalism and empire the Wiles lectures given at the Queen`s University of Belfast, 2007 - New York Cambridge University Press 2012 - x,383p. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-379) and index.

Preface -- Introduction: The meanings of liberalism in colonial India -- The social and intellectual contexts of early Indian liberalism, c. 1780-1840 -- The advent of liberalism in India : constitutions, revolutions and juries -- The advent of liberal thought in India and beyond : civil society and the press -- After Rammohan : benign sociology and statistical liberalism -- Living as liberals : Bengal and Bombay c. 1840-1880 -- Thinking as liberals : historicism, race, society, and economy, c. 1840-1880 -- Giants with feet of clay : Asian critics and Victorian sages to 1914 -- Liberals in the Desh : north Indian Hindus and the Muslim dilemma -- "Communitarianism" : Indian liberalism transformed, c.1890- 1916 -- Inter-war : Indian discourse and controversy, 1919-1935 -- Anti-liberalism, 'counter-liberalism' and liberalism's survival, 1920-1950 -- Conclusion : lineages of liberalism in India.

9781107025097

2011017493


Liberalism--History.--India
Democracy--India.

JC574.2.I4 / B39 2012

320.510954 / BA-R

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