Sultan, Nazmul, <br/><br/>
Waiting for the people:  the idea of democracy in Indian anticolonial thought 

 - Cambridge, Massachusetts ;  London, England :  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  2024. 
 - vi, 301p. ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> A Global Hierarchy of Peoples: The Rise of Developmentalism in the Nineteenth Century --  The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India --  The Colonial Paradox of Peoplehood: Swaraj and the Gandhian Moment --  Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty --  To "Carry" the People through History: Postcolonial Founding and the Idea of Independence --  The Two Times of the People: The Boundary Problem, or the Burden of Unity. 
<br/><br/> "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."-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674290372 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> TB 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2023008350 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democracy--India.<br/>Sovereignty.<br/>Liberalism--History.--India<br/>Self-determination, National--India.<br/>Anti-imperialist movements--India.<br/>Decolonization--India.<br/>Postcolonialism--India.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--Politics and government--19th century.<br/>India--Politics and government--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JQ281  / .S85 2024