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Waiting for the People

The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought

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$45.00 • £39.95 • €40.95

ISBN 9780674290372

Publication Date: 01/09/2024

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312 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

Belknap Press

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  • 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

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