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India: Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse

By Gurpreet Mahajan

Book information

Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Year
2013
ISBN
9781350220744, 9781780320939, 9781780320922
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1204259 bytes)
Pages
\185
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 21:13:36

Description

In this groundbreaking work, Gurpreet Mahajan tackles the predisposition of political theory to be limited by the Western canon. Bringing into focus how concepts central to the modern democratic political imaginary are interpreted in India, this book elaborates the ways that ideas of freedom, equality and difference are layered with new meanings and how questions of religion and state, critical reason and embedded self are understood in the Indian context. Part of Zed’s World Political Theories series, this remarkable work offers a glimpse of the social and political life of contemporary India, and how it differs from the dominant liberal paradigm.

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