C. A. Bayly (University of Cambridge)

Recovering Liberties

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the world's greatest historians shows how Indians appropriated liberalism to argue for rights, representation and a better society.

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In a vibrant contribution to the fields of global intellectual history and the history of South Asia, Christopher Bayly provides an essential background to the emergence of Indian democracy, showing how Indian thinkers used their own traditions along with Western political thought to demand justice, racial equality and political representation.

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Produktdetails

• Ideas in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781107601475
• ISBN-10: 1107601479
• Artikelnr.: 33765287

Autorenporträt

Professor Sir Christopher Bayly, KB, LittD, FBA, is Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. He is currently Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge. He has published works on the history of the city of Allahabad in north India, Indian merchant communities, empire and information in India and the origin of nationality in South Asia. Professor Bayly was awarded the Wolfson Prize in History for 'lifetime achievement' in 2006 and the Royal Asiatic Society's medal in 2008. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Historical Society. He became a trustee of the British Museum in 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

'A fine study of the circulation and transformation of liberal agents, ideas and institutions in India from the 1820s. His extensive bibliography in both Indian and English scholarship will doubtless enable further studies of trans- and inter-culturation, liberalization and the nineteenth century.' Regenia Gagnier, Victorian Studies