India : Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse
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| Title: | India : Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse |
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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. |
| Authors: | Gurpreet Mahajan |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781780320939 9781780320922 9781780320946 9781780325163 9781780329000 |
