CiNii Books - Political ideas in modern India : thematic explorations

The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way. In Political Ideas in Modern India, an outstanding group of social and political theorists offers a creative reinterpretation of the ideas and principles that have shaped modern Indian society and state. The ideas interpreted or analysed include rights, freedoms, equality, social justice, constitutional rule, swaraj, swadeshi, satyagraha, class war, socialism, Hindutva, Hind Swaraj, syncretic culture, composite nationalism, and international peace and justice.

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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 Preface Index

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