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An intellectual history for India / edited by Shruti Kapila ; with an afterword by C.A. Bayly.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Delhi : Cambridge University Press, c2010.Description: viii, 156 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521199759 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954 INT 23 008368
LOC classification:
  • DS423 .I64 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: This volume addresses the power of ideas in the making of Indian political modernity.
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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.

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