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Revisiting Modern Indian Thought

Revisiting Modern Indian Thought

Themes and Perspectives

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  • Release Date: 13/08/2021
  • Barcode: 9780367633165
  • Genre: Society & Culture
  • Sub-Genre: Sociology & Anthropology
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Revisiting Modern Indian Thought

Revisiting Modern Indian Thought

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Themes and Perspectives
This book presents a comprehensive account of the socio-political thought of prominent modern Indian thinkers. It examines critical themes such as nationalism, swaraj, democracy, liberalism, revolution, socialism, constitutionalism, secularism, humanism, ethics in politics, social transformation and emancipation, and social and gender justice.

This book presents a comprehensive account of the socio-political thought of prominent modern Indian thinkers. It offers a clear understanding of the basic concepts and their contributions on contemporary issues.

Key features:

  • Explores the nature, scope, relevance, context, and theoretical approaches of modern Indian thought and overviews its development through an in-depth study of the lives and ideas of major thinkers.
  • Examines critical themes such as nationalism, swaraj, democracy and state, liberalism, revolution, socialism, constitutionalism, secularism, satyāgraha, swadeshi, nationbuilding, humanism, ethics in politics, democratic decentralisation, religion and politics, social transformation and emancipation, and social and gender justice under sections on liberal-reformist, moderate-Gandhian, and leftist-socialist thought.
  • Brings together insightful essays on Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Dayānanda Saraswati, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Pandita Ramabai, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Dadabhai Naoroji, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Ram Manohar Lohia, Babu Jagjivan Ram, Vinoba Bhave, Acharya Narendra Deva, Manabendra Nath Roy, and Jayaprakash Narayan.
  • Traces different perspectives on the way India’s composite cultures, traditions, and conditions inf luenced the evolution of their thought and legacy.

With its accessible style, this book will be useful to teachers, students, and scholars of political science, modern Indian political thought, modern Indian history, and political philosophy. It will also interest those associated with exclusion studies, political sociology, sociology, and South Asian studies.



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  • Contributor: Suratha Kumar Malik (Edited by), Ankit Tomar (Edited by)
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