Political ideas in modern India: thematic exploration/ edited by V. R. Mehta

Contributor(s):

Mehta, V. R., ed

Material type:

TextPublication details: New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2006.Description: 481 pISBN:

0761934200

Subject(s):

Political Science -- Philosophy -- India

DDC classification:

320.50954 MEH/P

Contents:

General Introduction /DP Chattopadhyaya A Thematic Introduction to Political Ideas in Modern India /Thomas Pantham and VR Mehta PART ONE: ON SOCIAL REFORM AND RADICAL POLITICS UNDER COLONIAL MODERNITY Radicalism in Modern Indian Social and Political Thought /Bidyut Chakrabarty Nationalist Creativity in the Colonial Era: Virtue, Vice and the Origins of Militant Nationalist Thought in Western India /Sanjay Palshikar Dalit-Bahujan Discourse in Modern India /Valerian Rodrigues BR Ambedkar and the Troubled Times of Citizenship /Partha Chatterjee PART TWO: HISTORY, LITERATURE AND POLITICAL IMAGINATIONS IN COLONIAL INDIA Subaltern History as Political Thought /Dipesh Chakrabarty The World and Ideas /GP Deshpande The Case of Colonial and Ex-Colonial Maharashtra: Social and Political Thought in Gujarat /Sitanshu Yashaschandra Some Pathways from the Past to the Present: Nationalist Politics in Hindi Fiction / Harish Trivedi Liberal Zag-Zag vs the Straight and Simple Left PART THREE: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND NATIONALIST IMAGAGINATIONS The Quest for Hinduism /Pratap Bhanu Mehta From Community to Nation /Gurpreet Mahajan The Making of the Majority-Minority Framework: Religion, Society and Politics During the Nehruvian Era /Mushirul Hasan Profiling India's Muslim Communities: Gandhi and Islam /Fred Dallmayr A Heart-and-Mind Unity?Religious Diversity and National Unity /Thomas Pantham The Gandhian and Hindutva Visions: Spirituality and Politics in Coomaraswamy Radhakrishnan and Rajagopalachari /Vasanthi Srinivasan PART FOUR: LIBERAL-SECULAR DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL/GENDER JUSTICE Justice of Human Rights in Indian Constitutionalism /Upendra Baxi Preliminary Notes: Indian Secularism /Rajeev Bhargava An Alternative, Trans-Cultural Ideal: Secular Liberalism and Relativism /Akeel Bilgrami Redefining Equality Social Justice in the Mandal Debate, 1990: Nation, Identity, Citizenship /Nivedita Menon Feminist Critique in Contemporary India PART FIVE: TOWARDS A JUST AND PEACEFUL WORLD Indian Conceptions of Order/ Justice in International Relations /Kanti Bajpai Nehruvian, Gandhian, Hindutva, and Neo-Liberal PART SIX: SOME CONCERNS OF RECENT INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT Debates and Engagements /Javeed Alam A Look at Communist Interventions in India: Socialist Discourse in India /Rajaram Tolpady Modernity and its Critics /Sarah Joseph A Discussion of Some Contemporary Social and Political Theories: Limits of the Indian Political Imagination /Bhikhu Parekh

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General Introduction /DP Chattopadhyaya
A Thematic Introduction to Political Ideas in Modern India /Thomas Pantham and VR Mehta

PART ONE: ON SOCIAL REFORM AND RADICAL POLITICS UNDER COLONIAL MODERNITY
Radicalism in Modern Indian Social and Political Thought /Bidyut Chakrabarty
Nationalist Creativity in the Colonial Era: Virtue, Vice and the Origins of Militant Nationalist Thought in Western India /Sanjay Palshikar
Dalit-Bahujan Discourse in Modern India /Valerian Rodrigues
BR Ambedkar and the Troubled Times of Citizenship /Partha Chatterjee

PART TWO: HISTORY, LITERATURE AND POLITICAL IMAGINATIONS IN COLONIAL INDIA
Subaltern History as Political Thought /Dipesh Chakrabarty
The World and Ideas /GP Deshpande
The Case of Colonial and Ex-Colonial Maharashtra: Social and Political Thought in Gujarat /Sitanshu Yashaschandra
Some Pathways from the Past to the Present: Nationalist Politics in Hindi Fiction / Harish Trivedi
Liberal Zag-Zag vs the Straight and Simple Left

PART THREE: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND NATIONALIST IMAGAGINATIONS
The Quest for Hinduism /Pratap Bhanu Mehta
From Community to Nation /Gurpreet Mahajan
The Making of the Majority-Minority Framework: Religion, Society and Politics During the Nehruvian Era /Mushirul Hasan
Profiling India's Muslim Communities: Gandhi and Islam /Fred Dallmayr
A Heart-and-Mind Unity?Religious Diversity and National Unity /Thomas Pantham
The Gandhian and Hindutva Visions: Spirituality and Politics in Coomaraswamy Radhakrishnan and Rajagopalachari /Vasanthi Srinivasan

PART FOUR: LIBERAL-SECULAR DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL/GENDER JUSTICE
Justice of Human Rights in Indian Constitutionalism /Upendra Baxi
Preliminary Notes: Indian Secularism /Rajeev Bhargava
An Alternative, Trans-Cultural Ideal: Secular Liberalism and Relativism /Akeel Bilgrami
Redefining Equality Social Justice in the Mandal Debate, 1990: Nation, Identity, Citizenship /Nivedita Menon
Feminist Critique in Contemporary India

PART FIVE: TOWARDS A JUST AND PEACEFUL WORLD
Indian Conceptions of Order/ Justice in International Relations /Kanti Bajpai Nehruvian, Gandhian, Hindutva, and Neo-Liberal

PART SIX: SOME CONCERNS OF RECENT INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Debates and Engagements /Javeed Alam
A Look at Communist Interventions in India: Socialist Discourse in India /Rajaram Tolpady
Modernity and its Critics /Sarah Joseph
A Discussion of Some Contemporary Social and Political Theories: Limits of the Indian Political Imagination /Bhikhu Parekh

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