Waiting for the people : the idea of democracy in Indian anticolonial thought

Waiting for the people : the idea of democracy in Indian anticolonial thought [320.454]

by Nazmul Sultan
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press - 2024
  • Subjects:

    • Democracy - India

    • India - History

    • Indian - Political and government

    • Politics - India - 21st century

  • Call No. : 320.454 SUW
  • Accession Number(ACC): 7293

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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.