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