Global Intellectual History and the Indian Political

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ID23716248
AuthorsShruti Kapila (corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages253-274
Publication date2014-01-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueRethinking Modern European Intellectual History (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199769230.003.0013
OpenAlexW2496596219
ISBN9780199769230
LanguageEN
Citations received19

In specifying the global as a historical and philosophical condition of the twentieth century, this essay situates India as methodologically instructive for the study of major political concepts ranging from liberalism to democracy. The centrality of conflict and rupture as productive for political projects of the twentieth century is emphasized in relation to current metaphors and methods of global history, be they circulation and exchange or dialogue and dissent. The primacy of the political, in the Indian context, is elaborated in relation to the ethical and the social encompassing issues of violence and nonviolence. The parting with history conditioned the ideological innovation of twentieth-century India that radically reappraised, as it rejected, inherited political vocabularies of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Precisely because it was without precedent, this essay argues, agonism appeared as the enduring form of the world’s largest democracy.

Context (archaeology) · Democracy · Dissent · Fraternity · History of political thought · Ideology · Intellectual history · Liberalism · Political dissent · Political economy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Relation (database) · Social science · Sociology · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law

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