Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire: 100 (Ideas in Context, Series Number 100)
Cambridge University Press, 11/10/2011
EAN 9781107013834, ISBN10: 1107013836
Hardcover, 404 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Language: English
One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai Naoroji in the 1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the 1900s. This powerful new study shows how the ideas of constitutional, and later 'communitarian' liberals influenced, but were also rejected by their opponents and successors, including Nehru, Gandhi, Indian socialists, radical democrats and proponents of Hindu nationalism. Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developing field of global intellectual history, demonstrating that the ideas we associate with major Western thinkers – Mills, Comte, Spencer and Marx – were received and transformed by Indian intellectuals in the light of their own traditions to demand justice, racial equality and political representation. In doing so, Christopher Bayly throws fresh light on the nature and limitations of European political thought and re-examines the origins of Indian democracy.
Preface
Introduction
the meanings of liberalism in colonial India
1. The social and intellectual contexts of early Indian liberalism, c.1750–1840
2. The advent of liberal thought in India
constitutions, revolutions and juries
3. The advent of liberal thought in India and beyond
civil society and the press
4. After Rammohan
benign sociology and statistical liberalism
5. Living as liberals
Bengal and Bombay c.1840–1880
6. Thinking as liberals
historicism, race, society and economy, c.1840–1848
7. Giants with feet of clay
Asian critics and Victorian sages to 1914
8. Liberals in the Desh
North Indian Hindus and the Muslim Dilemma
9. 'Communitarianism'
Indian liberalism transformed, c.1890–1916
10. Inter-war
Indian discourse and controversy 1919–1935
11. Anti-liberalism, 'counter-liberalism' and liberalism's afterlife, 1920–1950
Conclusion
lineages of liberalism in India
Bibliography.