An intellectual history for India /
An intellectual history for India /
edited by Shruti Kapila ; with an afterword by C.A. Bayly.
- Delhi : Cambridge University Press, c2010.
- viii, 156 pages ; 24 cm
With an afterword by C A Bayly.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Anxieties of distance: codification in early colonial Bengal; 2. Rammohan Roy and the advent of constitutional liberalism in India, 1800-30; 3. Contesting translations: orientalism and the interpretation of the Vedas; 4. Apologetic modernity; 5. Beyond culture-contact and colonial discourse: 'Germanism' in colonial Bengal; 6. Striking a just balance: Maulana Azad as a theorist of transnational Jihad; 7. Self, Spencer and Swaraj: nationalist thought and critiques of liberalism, 1890-1920; 8. The spirit and form of an ethical polity: a meditation on Aurobindo's thought; 9. Geographies of subjectivity, pan-Islam and Muslim separatism: Muhammad Iqbal and selfhood; Afterword; List of Contributors.
This volume addresses the power of ideas in the making of Indian political modernity.
9780521199759 (hbk.)
2010513259
India--Intellectual life.
DS423 / .I64 2010
954 INT / 008368
With an afterword by C A Bayly.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Anxieties of distance: codification in early colonial Bengal; 2. Rammohan Roy and the advent of constitutional liberalism in India, 1800-30; 3. Contesting translations: orientalism and the interpretation of the Vedas; 4. Apologetic modernity; 5. Beyond culture-contact and colonial discourse: 'Germanism' in colonial Bengal; 6. Striking a just balance: Maulana Azad as a theorist of transnational Jihad; 7. Self, Spencer and Swaraj: nationalist thought and critiques of liberalism, 1890-1920; 8. The spirit and form of an ethical polity: a meditation on Aurobindo's thought; 9. Geographies of subjectivity, pan-Islam and Muslim separatism: Muhammad Iqbal and selfhood; Afterword; List of Contributors.
This volume addresses the power of ideas in the making of Indian political modernity.
9780521199759 (hbk.)
2010513259
India--Intellectual life.
DS423 / .I64 2010
954 INT / 008368