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Righteous Republic - The Political Foundations of Modern India (Hardcover)
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Righteous Republic - The Political Foundations of Modern India (Hardcover)
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What India's founders derived from Western political traditions as
they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely
understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge
traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as
they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In
Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account,
a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought.
Taking five of the most important founding figures-Mohandas Gandhi,
Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B.
R. Ambedkar-Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical
texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The
diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed
themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita,
Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and
architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India's founders
went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical
frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a
portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and
cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian
knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social
questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence.
Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance,
the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would
allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new
republic they envisaged would embody both India's struggle for
sovereignty and its quest for the self.
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