Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire

Abstract

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.

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