- Introduction: Waiting for the People
- 1. A Global Hierarchy of Peoples: The Rise of Developmentalism in the Nineteenth Century
- 2. The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India
- 3. The Colonial Paradox of Peoplehood: Swaraj and the Gandhian Moment
- 4. Between the Many and the One: The Anticolonial Federalist Challenge
- 5. To “Carry” the People through History: Postcolonial Founding and the Idea of Independence
- 6. The Two Times of the People: The Boundary Problem, or the Burden of Unity
- Conclusion: The Futures of Anticolonial Political Thought
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


Waiting for the People
The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought
Product Details
HARDCOVER
$45.00 • £39.95 • €40.95
ISBN 9780674290372
Publication Date: 01/09/2024
x Text