Political thought in modern India
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Political thought in modern India
Sage Publications, 1986
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The twenty stimulating and original essays in this volume provide a comprehensive analysis of the main strands of modern Indian political thought.
The thinkers dicussed are Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Saraswati, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Ranade, Phule, Tilak, B R Ambedkar, Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, M N Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru and Gandhi. Separate essays are devoted to the Hindu and Muslim traditions in Indian political thought, Hindu nationalism, and the ideologies of the Communist and Sarvodaya movements. A significant feature of these essays is that they study each thinker or movement in the relevant socio-historical context as also examine the consequences and impact of modern Indian political theories, These are analysed from a world-hostorical and, to some extent, a political economy perspective.
The essays in this collection highlight two major streams in modern Indian political thought-one which favoured the adoption or adaptation of western political traditions and the other which sought to evolve indigenous or alternative formulations. The overall conclusion that emerges from this volume is that in order to formulate an adequate political philosophy for the modern age, both the western and Indian traditions have to be taken into account. In this context, some of the essays highlight the contemporary global relevance of Gandhi's socio-political ideas.
This book is a major contribution to modern political philosophy. It will be of great value to students and teacher of political science.
Table of Contents
Preface - Thomas Pantham
Introduction: For the Study of Modern Indian Political Thought
Some Reflections on the Hindu Tradition of Political Thought - Bhikhu Parekh
The Socio-Religious and Political Thought of Rammohun Roy - Thomas Pantham
The Social and Political Ideas of Swami Dayananda Saraswati - B R Purohit
Culture and Power in the Thought of Bankimchandra - Partha Chatterjee
Two Strands of Indian Liberalism: The Ideas of Ranade and Phule - Rajendra Vora
The Political Ideas of Lokmanya Tilak - N R Inamdar
The Ideology of Hindu Nationalism - Prabha Dixit
Dynamics of Muslim Political Thought - Moin Shakir
The Social and Political Thought of B R Ambedkar - Eleanor Zelliot
Tagore: Politics and Beyond - Radharaman Chakrabarti
Sri Aurobindo and the Search for Political and Spiritual Perfection - Kenneth L Deutsch
The Heteronomous Radicalism of M N Roy - Sudipta Kaviraj
Ideology and Strategy of the Communist Movement in India - Manoranjan Mohanty
The Political Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru - R C Pillai
The Ideology of Sarvodaya: Concepts of Politics and Power in Indian Political Thought - Dennis Dalton
Gandhi's Satyagraha and Hindu Thought - Indira Rothermund
Gandhi and Democratic Theory - Ronald J Terchek
Beyond Liberal Democracy: Thinking with Mahatma Gandhi - Thomas Pantham
Oppression and Human Liberation: Towards a Post-Gandhian Utopia - Ashis Nandy
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