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Liberalism and Empire

A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought

By: Uday Singh Mehta

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Liberalism and Empire

A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought

By: Uday Singh Mehta

We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals manifested a narrow conception of human experience and ways of being in the world. Ironically, it is in the conservative Edmund Burke—a severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansion—that Mehta finds an alternative and more capacious liberal vision. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, Liberalism and Empire reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise our conception of the grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated.

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University of Chicago Press

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022651918X

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The Anxiety of Freedom

Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought

By: Uday Singh Mehta

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The Anxiety of Freedom

Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought

By: Uday Singh Mehta

The enduring appeal of liberalism lies in its commitment to the idea that human beings have a "natural" potential to live as free and equal individuals. The realization of this potential, however, is not a matter of nature, but requires that people be molded by a complex constellation of political and educational institutions. In this eloquent and provocative book, Uday Singh Mehta investigates in the major writings of John Locke the implications of this tension between individuals and the institutions that mold them. The process of molding, he demonstrates, involves an external conformity and an internal self-restraint that severely limit the scope of individuality. Mehta explores the centrality of the human imagination in Locke’s thought, focusing on his obsession with the potential dangers of the cognitive realm. Underlying Locke’s fears regarding the excesses of the imagination is a political anxiety concerning how to limit their potential effects. In light of Locke’s views on education, Mehta concludes that the promise of liberation at the heart of liberalism is vitiated by its constraints on cognitive and political freedom.

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Cornell University Press

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1501726404

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Liberalism and Empire

A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought

By: Uday Singh Mehta

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Resistance as Negotiation

Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India

By: Uday Chandra

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Resistance as Negotiation

Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India

By: Uday Chandra

Tribes" appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states. Acts of resistance and rebellion by groups designated as "tribal" have fascinated as well as perplexed administrators and scholars in South Asia and beyond. Tribal resistance and rebellion are held to be tragic yet heroic political acts by "subaltern" groups confronting omnipotent states. By contrast, this book draws on fifteen years of archival and ethnographic research to argue that statemaking is intertwined inextricably with the politics of tribal resistance in the margins of modern India. Uday Chandra demonstrates how the modern Indian state and its tribal or adivasi subjects have made and remade each other throughout the colonial and postcolonial eras, historical processes of modern statemaking shaping and being shaped by myriad forms of resistance by tribal subjects. Accordingly, tribal resistance, whether peaceful or violent, is better understood vis-à-vis negotiations with the modern state, rather than its negation, over the past two centuries. How certain people and places came to be seen as "tribal" in modern India is, therefore, tied intimately to how "tribal" subjects remade their customs and community in the course of negotiations with colonial and postcolonial states. Ultimately, the empirical material unearthed in this book requires rethinking and rewriting the political history of modern India from its "tribal" margins.

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Stanford University Press

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1503639150

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The Anxiety of Freedom

Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought

By: Uday Singh Mehta

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Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought

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Book's by Uday Singh Mehta

Liberalism and Empire

Liberalism and Empire

The Anxiety of Freedom

The Anxiety of Freedom

Liberalism and Empire

Liberalism and Empire

Resistance as Negotiation

Resistance as Negotiation

The Anxiety of Freedom

The Anxiety of Freedom

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