TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sultan,Nazmul
TI  - Waiting for the people: the idea of democracy in Indian anticolonial thought
SN  - 9780674290372
AV  - JQ281 .S85 2024
PY  - 2024///
KW  - Democracy
KW  - India
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - History
KW  - Self-determination, National
KW  - Anti-imperialist movements
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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."--
ER  -