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100 1 _aSultan, Nazmul,
_eauthor.
_9755446
245 1 0 _aWaiting for the people:
_bthe idea of democracy in Indian anticolonial thought
260 _aCambridge, Massachusetts ;
_aLondon, England :
_bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
_c2024.
264 1 _c2024.
300 _avi, 301p. ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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365 _b699.00
_cINR
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tA Global Hierarchy of Peoples: The Rise of Developmentalism in the Nineteenth Century --
_tThe Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India --
_tThe Colonial Paradox of Peoplehood: Swaraj and the Gandhian Moment --
_tBetween the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty --
_tTo "Carry" the People through History: Postcolonial Founding and the Idea of Independence --
_tThe Two Times of the People: The Boundary Problem, or the Burden of Unity.
520 _a"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."--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aDemocracy
_zIndia.
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650 0 _aSovereignty.
650 0 _aLiberalism
_zIndia
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aSelf-determination, National
_zIndia.
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650 0 _aAnti-imperialist movements
_zIndia.
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650 0 _aDecolonization
_zIndia.
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650 0 _aPostcolonialism
_zIndia.
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651 0 _aIndia
_xPolitics and government
_y19th century.
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651 0 _aIndia
_xPolitics and government
_y20th century.
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