Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought

ISBN-13: 9780674290372 / Angielski

Nazmul Sultan

Opis

Nazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of peoplehood and self-rule. Indians contested British claims that the "backwardness" of the Indian people offered a democratic justification for imperial domination.