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

by C.A. Bayly

Book Overview

One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai Naoroji in the 1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the 1900s. This powerful new study shows how the ideas of constitutional, and later 'communitarian' liberals influenced, but were also rejected by their opponents and successors, including Nehru, Gandhi, Indian socialists, radical democrats and proponents of Hindu nationalism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107013836
• ISBN13: 9781107013834
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"