Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought

"Drawing on figures ranging from Gandhi to the leaders of the Indian socialist movement, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought explores the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire and reinterprets the history of representative democracy in South Asia"--

List of contents

1. Popular sovereignty and the end of empire; 2. 'The genius of the people': The 1923 Constitution of Mysore; 3. 'A vast subterranean democracy': Pluralism in the 1920s; 4. 'A living union': The project of Gandhian democracy; 5. Representation, popular sovereignty, and the Indian founding; 6. 'Towards total revolution': the aftermath of independence; 7. Conclusion: The challenge of representative democracy; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Tejas Parasher is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2019 and was formerly Junior Research Fellow in Political Thought and Intellectual History at King's College, University of Cambridge.

Summary

Drawing on figures ranging from Gandhi to the leaders of the Indian socialist movement, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought explores the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire and reinterprets the history of representative democracy in South Asia.

Foreword

The first study of a neglected tradition of participatory democracy in modern India.

Product details

• Authors: Tejas Parasher, Tejas (University of California Parasher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781009305594
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0930559-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Indigenous Peoples, Political structures: democracy, Asian History, Regional government, Indigenous people: governance and politics, HISTORY / Asia / South / India, history of political thought; South Asian history