
India
Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse
Gurpreet Mahajan(Author)
Zed Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 10. October 2013
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-78032-093-9 (ISBN)
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Description
In this groundbreaking work, Gurpreet Mahajan tackles the predisposition of political theory to be limited by the Western canon. Bringing into focus how concepts central to the modern democratic political imaginary are interpreted in India, this book elaborates the ways that ideas of freedom, equality and difference are layered with new meanings and how questions of religion and state, critical reason and embedded self are understood in the Indian context.
Part of Zed's World Political Theories series, this remarkable work offers a glimpse of the social and political life of contemporary India, and how it differs from the dominant liberal paradigm.
Part of Zed's World Political Theories series, this remarkable work offers a glimpse of the social and political life of contemporary India, and how it differs from the dominant liberal paradigm.
Reviews / Votes
A welcome text for specialists and general readers alike. * Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame * A nuanced and critical introduction to the ideas that frame the world's largest democracy. * Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University * An important statement from one of the foremost Indian political theorists. * Rajeev Bhargava, Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies * A brilliant, lucid account of how to get beyond the "imperialism of categories" to a voice that can articulate political ideas that are culturally authentic yet open to the other. * Susanne and Loyd Rudolph, University of Chicago *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78032-093-9 (9781780320939)
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Person
Gurpreet Mahajan is Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has published widely on issues relating to multiculturalism, cultural diversity and minority rights, secularism and civil society. Her publications include Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences, Identities and Rights: Aspects of Liberal Democracy in India, and The Multicultural Path: Issues of Diversity and Discrimination in Democracy; she has edited Democracy, Difference and Social Justice and The Public and the Private: Issues of Democratic Citizenship.
Content
1. Indian political theory: beyond cultural essentialism
2. Equality
3. Freedom
4. Religion
5. Diversity
6. The language of democratic discourse
2. Equality
3. Freedom
4. Religion
5. Diversity
6. The language of democratic discourse