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"--

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
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.07.2023
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781009305594
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0930559-4
• Pages: 280
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: 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, South Asian history, history of political thought; South Asian history