Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
V.S. Srinivasa Sastri - Vineet Thakur

V.S. Srinivasa Sastri

A Liberal Life

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
136 Seiten
2023
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-51661-5 (ISBN)
CHF 74,95 inkl. MwSt
This book explores the Indian tradition of liberalism through a critical intellectual biography of Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (1869–1946). A notable politician, diplomat and educationist in colonial India, Sastri was a founding member of the National Liberal Federation and was one of the leading liberals.
This book explores the Indian tradition of liberalism through a critical intellectual biography of Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (1869–1946). A notable politician, diplomat and educationist in colonial India, Sastri was a founding member of the National Liberal Federation and was one of the leading liberals — often dismissed as ‘a body of sycophants and self-seekers’ — of the post-1918 period of Indian pre-independence history. Through Sastri, the book shines a light on the contributions of liberals in Indian political history and challenges the convenient binaries in Indian historiography.

Examining the role that liberals like Sastri played in bridging the gap between the officials and the nationalists, it traces the practice of liberal politics in the post-1918 period of Indian nationalist struggle and the broader contours of Indian liberalism. Accessible, comprehensive and scholarly, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of Indian history, especially the nationalist movement, political thought, and South Asian studies.

Vineet Thakur is a university lecturer at Leiden University, Netherlands. He studied at JNU (New Delhi) and has previously worked at Ambedkar University (Delhi), University of Johannesburg and SOAS London. He was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam, and Smuts Vesting Fellow at Cambridge University. He is the author of India’s First Diplomat: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri and the Making of Liberal Internationalism (2021); The Imperial Discipline: Race and the Founding of International Relations (with Alexander Davis and Peter Vale); South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations (2020—with Peter Vale, and winner of the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations); Postscripts on Independence: Foreign Policy Discourses in India and South Africa (2018) and Jan Smuts and the Indian Question (2017).

1. Introduction 2. The Making of a Liberal 3. The Politics of Reforms 4. An Indian Envoy in the Commonwealth 5. Dominion or Independence 6. Civility: ‘A Charity that Never Fails’ 7. In the Shadow of Rama 8. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Pathfinders
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-51661-5 / 1032516615
ISBN-13 978-1-032-51661-5 / 9781032516615
Zustand Neuware
Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR)
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Erinnerungen 1954-2021

von Angela Merkel; Beate Baumann

Buch | Hardcover (2024)
Kiepenheuer & Witsch (Verlag)
CHF 54,90
Das politische System der USA und die Zukunft der Demokratie

von Stephan Bierling

Buch | Hardcover (2025)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 39,20