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

Recovering LibertiesIndian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire\nAuthor(s): C. A. Bayly\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107013834, 978-1107013834\nSynopsis\nOne 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. Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developing field of global intellectual history, demonstrating that the ideas we associate with major Western thinkers Mills, Comte, Spencer and Marx were received and transformed by Indian intellectuals in the light of t.