JP Narayan a political morality re-examined
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8414658 |
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| Authors | David Selbourne (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-49 |
| Publication date | 1981-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4810 • E-ISSN: 1472-6033 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14672715.1981.10409918 |
| OpenAlex | W2317377631 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In the wake of JP's death and the flurry of ill-informed judgments which followed it, his critics pronounced his life and thought to have been vacillating and indecisive; at worst, a confused individualist and even a crypto-“fascist,” at best a well-intentioned but impractical idealist. In my own book, An Eye to India, I described his politics as “naive and impassioned, popular and populist” and the Bihar movement, which he led in 1974-1975, as a “mass-movement which must be called evanescent, and whose evanescence was to be proved subsequently by its rapid evaporation.” Of his concept of “Total Revolution,” I wrote that it was “neither total nor a revolution.”
Individualism · Morality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Highly cited | No |
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