Author: Das H HPublisher:
ISBN: 9788120709232
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Indian Political Traditions
Author: Das H HPublisher:
ISBN: 9788120709232
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Modernity of Tradition
Author: Lloyd I. RudolphPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226731375
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Stressing the variations in meaning of modernity and tradition, this work shows how in India traditional structures and norms have been adapted or transformed to serve the needs of a modernizing society. The persistence of traditional features within modernity, it suggests, answers a need of the human condition. Three areas of Indian life are analyzed: social stratification, charismatic leadership, and law. The authors question whether objective historical conditions, such as advanced industrialization, urbanization, or literacy, are requisites for political modernization.
Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India
Author: Ashok S. ChousalkarPublisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN: 9789352807680
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India: Pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra Tradition rediscovers the political ideas of the original and celebrated schools of thought in ancient India—early Arthashastra and Pre-Kautilyan traditions. This book throws light on hitherto not very well-known aspects of political ideas in ancient India, which flourished during the 5th and 4th centuries before Christ. Kautilya’s Arthashastra is a major text on ancient Indian political thought, wherein he cited views of a number of Arthashastra teachers who had written on political science. Unfortunately, their writings are not available today; only their views are found scattered in different texts. This book brings together these views to prepare a coherent account of their political ideas and reconstructs the pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra tradition with the help of available sources.
India in the Shadows of Empire
Author: Mithi MukherjeePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019908811X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This book explains the postcolonial Indian polity by presenting an alternative historical narrative of the British Empire in India and India's struggle for independence. It pursues this narrative along two major trajectories. On the one hand, it focuses on the role of imperial judicial institutions and practices in the making of both the British Empire and the anti-colonial movement under the Congress, with the lawyer as political leader. On the other hand, it offers a novel interpretation of Gandhi's non-violent resistance movement as being different from the Congress. It shows that the Gandhian movement, as the most powerful force largely responsible for India's independence, was anchored not in western discourses of political and legislative freedom but rather in Indic traditions of renunciative freedom, with the renouncer as leader. This volume offers a comprehensive and new reinterpretation of the Indian Constitution in the light of this historical narrative. The book contends that the British colonial idea of justice and the Gandhian ethos of resistance have been the two competing and conflicting driving forces that have determined the nature and evolution of the Indian polity after independence.
Indian Political Traditions
Author: Harihara DāsaPublisher: Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division
ISBN: 9788120708990
Category : Hinduism and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Indian Political Tradition
Author: Indian Political Tradition
Author: Dusmanta Kumar MohantyPublisher:
ISBN: 9788174887917
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Indian Political Tradition: From Manu To Ambedkar Provides A Lucid Summary Of Sixteen Indian Political Thinkers Representing Different Political Traditions Of Different Phases Broadly Two Ancient And Modern, Beginning With The Period Of Renaissance. These Include Two Ancient Thinkers Manu And Kautilya No Medieval Seer And The Rest Covering Modern Thinkers Like Rja Rammohan Roy, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Madhusudan Das, Aurobindo Ghosh, Mahatma Gandhi, Gopabandhu Das, Jawaharlal Nehru, Manavendranath Roy, Subhas Chandra Bose, Jayaprakash Narayan And Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar.The Choice Of Thinkers And Political Traditions Has Been Both Representative And Appropriate To Different Phases Of Indian History. They Highlight The Seminal Role And Importance Of The Overall Indian Heritage And The Specific Political Culture And Tradition.Every Chapter Includes A Biographical Sketch, Seminal Concepts And Contributions Of Each Thinker From A Comparative Perspective And Ends With A Critical Appraisal, A List Of Relevant References Has Also Been Given.The Book Will Suit The Needs Of All Categories Of Readers Graduate And Post-Graduate Students Of Universities, Those Preparing For Various Competitive Examinations, Teachers, Scholars And The General Readers.
Righteous Republic
Author: Ananya VajpeyiPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought. Taking five of the most important founding figures—Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R. Ambedkar—Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India’s founders went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence. Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance, the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new republic they envisaged would embody both India’s struggle for sovereignty and its quest for the self.
Political Violence in Ancient India
Author: Upinder SinghPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674981286
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the dynamic tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice over twelve hundred years. Political Violence in Ancient India looks at representations of kingship and political violence in epics, religious texts, political treatises, plays, poems, inscriptions, and art from 600 BCE to 600 CE. As kings controlled their realms, fought battles, and meted out justice, intellectuals debated the boundary between the force required to sustain power and the excess that led to tyranny and oppression. Duty (dharma) and renunciation were important in this discussion, as were punishment, war, forest tribes, and the royal hunt. Singh reveals a range of perspectives that defy rigid religious categorization. Buddhists, Jainas, and even the pacifist Maurya emperor Ashoka recognized that absolute nonviolence was impossible for kings. By 600 CE religious thinkers, political theorists, and poets had justified and aestheticized political violence to a great extent. Nevertheless, questions, doubt, and dissent remained. These debates are as important for understanding political ideas in the ancient world as for thinking about the problem of political violence in our own time.
The White Umbrella
Author: D. Mackenzie BrownPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520312015
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
This book has been written to provide the Western reader with a concise survey of Hindu political ideas. Various works habe been published by Indian scholars, but these erudite studies have generally been written for Indian readers or Orientalists, and deal with rather specialized fields. Although there are several American publications on Chinese political theory, the Indian field has been largely neglected in this country. tHe plan of the present work is to construct a brief analysis of Indian thought together with a series of sections from the Hindu political classics. --From the Preface This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.