July 2024
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
19h 8m
English
—Mahendra Prasad Singh
After a prolonged debate, Indian political thought has arrived as a field of study in its own right without succumbing to what appeared to be a compulsive instinct to compare it condescendingly with Western political thought. The hold of the orientalist mode of thought even on Indian scholars was such that some maintained that Western political thought was unquestioningly more systematically abstract and universal. It was subtly historically contextual as well. Indian political thinking, on the other hand, was supposedly banally contingent. Some writers tended to the view that Indian thought was religious and metaphysical without being concerned with the political (non-theological) ...
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