Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought

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.

• | Author: Nazmul Sultan
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 09, 2024
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674290372
• | ISBN-10: 0674290372