Developing India : an intellectual and social history, c. 1930-50
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Developing India : an intellectual and social history, c. 1930-50
（Oxford India paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 2012, c2005
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"First Edition published in 2005. Oxford India Paperbacks 2012"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-325) and index
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Description
This book is about the ideas regarding the concept of the term 'development' which emerged in circa 1930-50. It is a study of the formative period in history when the underlying notions of progress, self-government, and nation building were articulated. The author considers how the notions were driven by immediate political battles, yet inspired by a vision of the future that incorporated notions of sovereignty and equity.
Drawing on a variety of intellectual resources, the author analyses three themes around development: the importance of science and technology, the need for the government to express certain social concerns, and the need for national discipline. The argument is that alternative notions of development-consciously different from those based on free trade and industrialization could emerge in the inter-war period, when the future of capitalism did not appear as assured as they did in the nineteenth
century. This book opens up a new arena in the historiography of South Asia, that of an intellectual history of late colonialism in India, and of the nationalism that succeeded it.
Table of Contents
- ABBREVIATIONS
- PREFACE
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. THE CONTEXT
- 3. A REFORMED IMPERIUM?
- 4. THE DEBATE ON GANDHIAN IDEAS
- 5. DEVELOPMENT: POSSIBLE NATIONS
- 6. CONCLUSIONS
- GLOSSARY
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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