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Media and Nation Building in Twentieth-Century India Life and Times of Ramananda Chatterjee

Media and Nation Building in Twentieth-Century India Life and Times of Ramananda Chatterjee

This book profiles twentieth-century India through the life and times of Ramananda Chatterjee – journalist influencer nationalist. Through a reconstruction of his history the book highlights the oft-forgotten role of media in the making of the idea of India. It shows how early twentieth-century colonial India was a curious melee of ideas and people – a time of rising nationalism as well as an influx of Western ideas; of unprecedented violence and compelling non-violence; of press censorship and defiant journalism. It shows how Ramananda Chatterjee navigated this world and went beyond the traditional definition of the nation as an entity with fixed boundaries to anticipate Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner. The volume also examines the wide reach and scope of his journals in English Hindi and Bengali which published the likes of Rabindranath Tagore Subhash Bose Abanindranath Tagore Nandalal Bose Ananda Coomaraswamy the scientist J. C. Bose and Zhu Deh the co-founder of the Chinese Red Army. He also published India in Bondage by the American Unitarian minister J. T. Sunderland which resulted in his arrest. An intriguing behind-the-scenes look of early twentieth-century colonial India this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history modern South Asia and media and cultural studies. | Media and Nation Building in Twentieth-Century India Life and Times of Ramananda Chatterjee

GBP 38.99
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Revisiting Modern Indian Thought Themes and Perspectives

Revisiting Modern Indian Thought Themes and Perspectives

This book presents a comprehensive account of the socio-political thought of prominent modern Indian thinkers. It offers a clear understanding of the basic concepts and their contributions on contemporary issues. Key features: Explores the nature scope relevance context and theoretical approaches of modern Indian thought and overviews its development through an in-depth study of the lives and ideas of major thinkers. Examines critical themes such as nationalism swaraj democracy and state liberalism revolution socialism constitutionalism secularism satyāgraha swadeshi nationbuilding humanism ethics in politics democratic decentralisation religion and politics social transformation and emancipation and social and gender justice under sections on liberal-reformist moderate-Gandhian and leftist-socialist thought. Brings together insightful essays on Raja Ram Mohan Roy Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Dayānanda Saraswati Ramakrishna Paramhansa Pandita Ramabai Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Jyotirao Govindrao Phule Babasaheb Ambedkar Dadabhai Naoroji Gopal Krishna Gokhale Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru Subhas Chandra Bose Ram Manohar Lohia Babu Jagjivan Ram Vinoba Bhave Acharya Narendra Deva Manabendra Nath Roy and Jayaprakash Narayan. Traces different perspectives on the way India’s composite cultures traditions and conditions inf luenced the evolution of their thought and legacy. With its accessible style this book will be useful to teachers students and scholars of political science modern Indian political thought modern Indian history and political philosophy. It will also interest those associated with exclusion studies political sociology sociology and South Asian studies. | Revisiting Modern Indian Thought Themes and Perspectives

GBP 35.99
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