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Recovering liberties : Indian thought in the age of liberalism and empire
Title
Recovering liberties : Indian thought in the age of liberalism and empire / C. A. Bayly.
ISBN
9781107013834 (hbk.)
1107013836 (hbk.)
9781107601475 (pbk.)
1107601479 (pbk.)
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
x, 383 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2012
Series
Ideas in context ; 100
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The meanings of liberalism in colonial India
The social and intellectual contexts of early Indian liberalism, c. 1780-1840
The advent of liberalism in India: constitutions, revolutions and juries
The advent of liberal thought in India and beyond: civil society and the press
After Rammohan: benign sociology and statistical liberalism
Living as liberals: Bengal and Bombay c. 1840-80
Thinking as liberals: historicism, race, society and economy, c 1840-80
Giants with feet of clay: Asian critics and Victorian sages to 1914
Liberals in the Desh: North Indian Hindus and the Muslim dilemma
"Communitarianism". Indian liberalism transformed, c.1890- 1916
Inter-war: Indian discourse and controversy 1919-35
Anti-liberalism, 'counter-liberalism' and liberalism's survival, 1920-50
Conclusion: Lineages of liberalism in India.
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