Recovering Liberties

Bayly, Christopher A.:
Recovering Liberties : Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire / C. A. Bayly. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 [2011]. - ca. 390 S. - (Ideas in Context ; 100)
ISBN 978-1-107-01383-4
£ 50,00 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-107-60147-5
£ 18,99 (Paperback)
DDC: 320.510954
-- Angekündigt für November 2011 --

Beschreibung
One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai Naoroji in the 1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the 1900s. This powerful new study shows how the ideas of constitutional, and later 'communitarian' liberals influenced, but were also rejected by their opponents and successors, including Nehru, Gandhi, Indian socialists, radical democrats and proponents of Hindu nationalism. Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developing field of global intellectual history, demonstrating that the ideas we associate with major Western thinkers – Mills, Comte, Spencer and Marx – were received and transformed by Indian intellectuals in the light of their own traditions to demand justice, racial equality and political representation. In doing so, Christopher Bayly throws fresh light on the nature and limitations of European political thought and re-examines the origins of Indian democracy. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Preface. vii
Notes on Indian names. x
Introduction: the meanings of liberalism in colonial India. 1
1. The social and intellectual contexts of early Indian liberalism, c.1750–1840. 26
2. The advent of liberalism in India: constitutions, revolutions and juries. 42
3. The advent of liberal thought in India and beyond: civil society and the press. 73
4. After Rammohan: benign sociology and statistical liberalism. 104
5. Living as liberals: Bengal and Bombay c.1840–1880. 132
6. Thinking as liberals: historicism, race, society and economy, c.1840–1848. 161
7. Giants with feet of clay: Asian critics and Victorian sages to 1914. 188
8. Liberals in the Desh: North Indian Hindus and the Muslim Dilemma. 214
9. 'Communitarianism': Indian liberalism transformed, c.1890–1916. 245
10. Inter-war: Indian discourse and controversy 1919–1935. 276
11. Anti-liberalism, 'counter-liberalism' and liberalism's survival, 1920–1950. 311
Conclusion: lineages of liberalism in India. 343
Glossary. 358
Select bibliography. 360
Index. 380

Autor
CHRISTOPHER A. BAYLY, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge, UK. Profile page.

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