Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought

by Tejas Parasher

Book Overview

Between the 1910s and the 1970s, an eclectic group of Indian thinkers, constitutional reformers, and political activists articulated a theory of robustly democratic, participatory popular sovereignty. Taking parliamentary government and the modern nation-state to be prone to corruption, these thinkers advocated for ambitious federalist projects of popular government as alternatives to liberal, representative democracy. Radical Democracy in Modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009305603
• ISBN13: 9781009305600
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"