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A new biography of Gokhale that brings into consideration current questions within Indian historiography, this book is a timely and welcome addition to the fields of intellectual history, the history of political thought, Colonial history and Indian and South Asian history.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
- Why Gopal Krishna Gokhale?
- Thematic foci and chapter preview
- Literature and sources
Chapter 1: Liberalism
- The promises of Western education
- Teacher and journalist
- Learning at Ranade’s feet
- Coming to the political fore
- Amidst ‘the stormy and uncertain sea of public life’
- Conclusion
Chapter 2: Nationalism
- Geographical entity or nation?
- From India to Indians: A civil religion
- Building the nation beyond the nation
- Accommodating difference: The Muslim question
- National pedagogies: The ‘depressed classes’
- Conclusion
Chapter 3: Cosmopolitanism
- A Hindu in the heart of empire: A passage to England
- Campaigning for the Indian cause in the metropole
- A liberal empire?
- The Universal Races Congress
- A moral education for the Indian youth
- The South African question: A means to other ends?
- Diaspora, empire and nation
- Conclusion
Chapter 4: Citizenship
- Envisioning citizenship, making citizens
- Serving India?
- Teaching temperance
- Social rights between welfare and charity
- Mass education, national development, democracy
- Conclusion
Conclusion
Index
About the author
Elena Valdameri is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for History of the Modern World, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. She is a historian of modern South Asia, with specific interest and expertise in the history of political thought and the anticolonial movement.
Summary
A new biography of Gokhale that brings into consideration current questions within Indian historiography, this book is a timely and welcome addition to the fields of intellectual history, the history of political thought, Colonial history and Indian and South Asian history.
