A collection of essays by distinguished scholars, this book delineates a substantial conception of democracy, the great promise as well as the pitfalls of a democratic mentality and culture. These essays go beyond the institutional and formal descriptions of democracy to its underlying cultural context expressed both historically and analytically, descriptively and normatively.
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1 Liberal Democracy and its Critics: Some Voices from East and West |
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2 Value, Enchantment and the Mentality of Democracy: Some Distant Perspectives from Gandhi |
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3 Politics, Experience and Cognitive Enslavement: Gandhi's Hind Swaraj |
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4 Moral Perfection and Political Participation: The Indian `Millions' in Gandhi's Hind Swaraj |
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5 Politics and Violence: Gandhi's Ambivalence to Democracy |
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6 Pragmatism and Deepened Democracy: Ambedkar between Dewey and Unger |
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7 Constitutional Democracy and Hindu Nationalism |
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143 | (23) |
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8 Why Did Burke Impeach Hastings? |
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166 | (20) |
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9 Whither European Enlightenment? |
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186 | (13) |
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10 Popular Festivals, Populist Visual Culture and Modi Masks |
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199 | (10) |
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11 Globalization, Culture and Education |
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209 | (5) |
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| Bibliography |
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| About the Editor |
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| Contributors |
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Akeel Bilgrami is at present Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Heyman Centre for the Humanities at Columbia University. He has written extensively on philosophy of mind and language as well as on political and moral psychology. He is the author of Belief and Meaning (1992), Self-Knowledge and Resentment (2006), Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity (forthcoming), What Is a Muslim? (forthcoming), and Gandhis Integrity (forthcoming).
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