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100 1 _aParasher, Tejas,
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245 1 0 _aRadical democracy in modern Indian political thought /
_cTejas Parasher, University of California, Los Angeles.
250 _aFirst Edition.
260 _a. - New Delhi
_b: Cambridge University Press
_c. 2024
300 _a1 online resource
490 0 _aIdeas in context
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aPopular Sovereignty and the End of Empire -- "The Genius of the People": The 1923 Constitution of Mysore -- "A Vast Subterranean Democracy": Pluralism in the 1920s -- "A Living Union": The Project of Gandhian Democracy -- Popular Sovereignty, and the Indian Founding -- "Towards Total Revolution": The Aftermath of Independence -- Conclusion: The Challenge of Representative Democracy.
520 _a"Drawing on figures ranging from Gandhi to the leaders of the Indian socialist movement, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought explores the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire and reinterprets the history of representative democracy in South Asia"--
650 0 _aDemocracy
_zIndia.
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650 0 _aRepresentative government and representation
_zIndia.
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650 0 _aSelf-determination, National
_zIndia.
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650 0 _aPolitical science
_zIndia
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_cBK
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