Vajpeyi, Ananya

Righteous republic : the political foundations of modern India / Ananya Vajpeyi - Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012 - xxiv, 342p. 24cm

What India's founders derived from Western political traditions is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge traditions of 2,500 years influenced these men. Author furnishes this missing account, showing how five founders turned to classical texts to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood.

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India--Politics and government--Philosophy
Nationalism--India
Political science--India--Philosophy--History
Self--determination, National--India

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