TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mehta, V. R., ed.
TI  - Political ideas in modern India: thematic exploration
SN  - 0761934200
U1  - 320.50954 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - India
N1  - 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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