India : political ideas and the making of a democratic discourse

By:

Mahajan, Gurpreet

Material type: Text

9781780320939

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.954 23 MHA-I

LOC classification:

DS480.853 .M335 2013

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: One.Indian political theory: beyond cultural essentialism -- Two.Equality -- Three.Freedom -- Four.Religion -- Five.Diversity -- Six.The language of democratic discourse.

Summary: Annotation 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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Books	IIITD General Stacks	Political Science	320.954 MAH-I (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008836
Reference	IIITD Reference	Political Science	REF 320.954 MAH-I (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		008798		Social and Political Philosophy MNS

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-175) and index.

Annotation 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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