Research Catalog

Title

Recovering liberties : Indian thought in the age of liberalism and empire : the Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University of Belfast, 2007 / C.A. Bayly.

Author

Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan)

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description

x, 383 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Ideas in context ; 100

Uniform Title

Ideas in context ; 100.

Subject

• Liberalism > India > History
• Democracy > India

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-379) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Introduction: The meanings of liberalism in colonial India -- The social and intellectual contexts of early Indian liberalism, c. 1780-1840 -- The advent of liberalism in India : constitutions, revolutions and juries -- The advent of liberal thought in India and beyond : civil society and the press -- After Rammohan : benign sociology and statistical liberalism -- Living as liberals : Bengal and Bombay c. 1840-1880 -- Thinking as liberals : historicism, race, society, and economy, c. 1840-1880 -- Giants with feet of clay : Asian critics and Victorian sages to 1914 -- Liberals in the Desh : north Indian Hindus and the Muslim dilemma -- "Communitarianism" : Indian liberalism transformed, c.1890- 1916 -- Inter-war : Indian discourse and controversy, 1919-1935 -- Anti-liberalism, 'counter-liberalism' and liberalism's survival, 1920-1950 -- Conclusion : lineages of liberalism in India.

ISBN

• 9781107013834 (hbk.)
• 1107013836 (hbk.)
• 9781107601475 (pbk.)
• 1107601479 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011017493

OCLC

723141642

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library