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Uncivil liberalism
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- Book Synopsis
- Uncivil Liberalism studies how ideas of liberty from the colonized South claimed universality in the North. Recovering the political theory of Dadabhai Naoroji, India's pre-eminent liberal, this book offers an original global history of this process by focussing on Naoroji's pre-occupation with social interdependence and civil peace in an age of growing cultural diversity and economic inequality. It shows how Naoroji used political economy to critique British liberalism's incapacity for civil peace by linking periods of communal rioting in colonial Bombay with the Parsi minority's economic decline. He responded by innovating his own liberalism, characterized by labour rights, economic republicanism and social interdependence maintained by freely contracting workers. Significantly, the author draws attention to how Naoroji seeded 'Western' thinkers with his ideas as well as influencing numerous ideologies in colonial and post-colonial India. In doing so, the book offers a compelling argument which reframes Indian 'nationalists' as global thinkers.
- About The Author
- Vikram Visana is Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester. Prior to joining Leicester, he has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Huddersfield and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Free University of Berlin. He is a political theorist specializing in Indian political thought and global history.
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- ISBN
- 9781009215541
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press, (10 November 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 275
- Weight
- 480 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 236 x 160 x 20 mm
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