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India: Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse New ed. Edition
Author(s): Gurpreet Mahajan (Author)
- Publisher: Zed Books
- Publication Date: October 10, 2013
- Edition: New ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 1780320922
- ISBN-13: 9781780320922
Book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“A welcome text for specialists and general readers alike.” ―Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame
“A nuanced and critical introduction to the ideas that frame the world’s largest democracy.” ―Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University
“An important statement from one of the foremost Indian political theorists.” ―Rajeev Bhargava, Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
“A brilliant, lucid account of how to get beyond the “imperialism of categories” to a voice that can articulate political ideas that are culturally authentic yet open to the other.” ―Susanne and Loyd Rudolph, University of Chicago
