| Description |
1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Series |
Ideas in Context Series ; v.149 |
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Ideas in Context Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Popular Sovereignty and the End of Empire -- 1.1 ''The Fate of the Common People'' -- 1.2 ''The Awakening of the Orient'': Empire and Colonial Freedom -- 1.3 Anti-Colonialism as Political Thought -- 1.4 Situating the Book -- 2 ''The Genius of the People'': The 1923 Constitution of Mysore -- 2.1 Princely States and Quasi-Sovereignty -- 2.2 Monarchy and Reform in Mysore -- 2.3 Brajendra Nath Seal as Philosopher -- 2.4 The Constitution of 1923 |
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2.5 A Defeated Vision? -- 3 ''A Vast Subterranean Democracy'': Pluralism in the 1920s -- 3.1 Democracy Ancient and Modern -- 3.2 Political Representation and the Indian National Congress -- 3.3 The Pluralist Turn -- 3.4 Democracies of the East (1923) and Its Legacy -- 3.5 The Pluralist Moment of the 1920s -- 4 ''A Living Union'': The Project of Gandhian Democracy -- 4.1 ''A Genuine Democratic State'' -- 4.2 Gandhi and Representative Government -- 4.3 Gandhianism at Wardha -- 4.4 Gandhian Constitution for Free India (1946) -- 4.5 The Moral Order of Democracy |
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5 Representation, Popular Sovereignty, and the Indian Founding -- 5.1 A Republican Moment -- 5.2 Dissent in the Constituent Assembly -- 5.3 Marxist Critics -- 5.4 The Constitution and the People -- 6 ''Towards Total Revolution'': The Aftermath of Independence -- 6.1 A New Era? -- 6.2 A Moment of Reconstruction -- 6.3 Total Revolution -- 6.4 End of an Era -- 7 Conclusion: The Challenge of Representative Democracy -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- British Library, London -- Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), New Delhi -- International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam |
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Newspaper Records -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
The first study of a neglected tradition of participatory democracy in modern India |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009305570 |
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1009305573 |
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