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

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.