The common cause : postcolonial ethics and the practice of democracy, 1900-1955

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The common cause : postcolonial ethics and the practice of democracy, 1900-1955

Leela Gandhi

The University of Chicago Press, 2014

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-227) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction: moral imperfection: an ethics for democracy
  • After virtue: the strange case of belle époque socialist antimaterialism
  • On descent: stories from the gurus of modern India
  • Elementary virtues: Great War and the crisis of European man
  • Inconsequence: some little-known mutinies around 1946
  • Epilogue: paths of ahimsaic historiography

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