• Democracy - India

• India - History

• Indian - Political and government

• Politics - India - 21st century

Bibliography : An original reconstruction of how the debates over... ... Read More

Bibliography : An original reconstruction of how the debates over peoplehood defined Indian anticolonial thought, and a bold new framework for theorizing the global career of democracy. Indians, their former British rulers asserted, were unfit to rule themselves. Behind this assertion lay a foundational claim about the absence of peoplehood in India. The purported “backwardness” of Indians as a people led to a democratic legitimation of empire, justifying self-government at home and imperial rule in the colonies.