TY - BOOK AU - Singh,Aakash AU - Mohapatra,Silika TI - Indian political thought : a reader SN - 9780415562942 AV - JA84.I4 I525 2010 U1 - 320.0954 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Political science KW - India KW - Philosophy KW - Politics and culture KW - Political customs and rites KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The poverty of Indian political theory / Bhikhu Parekh -- Gandhi's Ambedkar / Ramachandra Guha -- The quest for justice: evoking Gandhi / Neera Chandhoke -- Tagore and his India / Amartya Sen -- Is secularism alien to Indian civilization? / Romila Thapar -- Secularism revisited: doctrine of destiny or political ideology? / T. N. Madan -- The distinctiveness of Indian secularism / Rajeev Bhargava -- The blindness of insight: why communalism in India is about caste / Dilip M. Menon -- In search of integration and identity: Indian Muslims since independence / Mushirul Hasan -- Sikh fundamentalism: translating history into theory / Harjot Oberoi -- Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment / Akeel Bilgrami -- Scientific temper: arguments for an Indian Enlightenment / Meera Nanda -- Outline of a revisionist theory of modernity / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Reconstructing childhood: a critique of the ideology of adulthood / Ashis Nandy -- Subaltern studies as postcolonial criticism / Gyan Prakash -- The commitment to theory / Homi Bhabha -- The justice of human rights in Indian constitutionalism / Upendra Baxi -- Emancipatory feminist theory in postcolonial India: unmasking the ruse of liberal internationalism / Ratna Kapur -- Righting wrongs / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- The poverty of Western political theory: concluding remarks on concepts like 'community' East and West / Partha Chatterjee ER -