Developing India: An Intellectual and Social History, C. 1930-50 - Couverture souple

Zachariah, Benjamin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198086075 ISBN 13 : 9780198086079

Editeur : OUP India, 2012

Synopsis

This book is about the ideas regarding the concept of the term 'development' which emerged in circa 1930-50. It is a study of the formative period in history when the underlying notions of progress, self-government, and nation building were articulated. The author considers how the notions were driven by immediate political battles, yet inspired by a vision of the future that incorporated notions of sovereignty and equity.

Drawing on a variety of intellectual resources, the author analyses three themes around development: the importance of science and technology, the need for the government to express certain social concerns, and the need for national discipline. The argument is that alternative notions of development-consciously different from those based on free trade and industrialization could emerge in the inter-war period, when the future of capitalism did not appear as assured as they did in the nineteenth century. This book opens up a new arena in the historiography of South Asia, that of an intellectual history of late colonialism in India, and of the nationalism that succeeded it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin Zachariah is Reader in South Asian History, Department of History, University of Sheffield.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198086075
• ISBN 13: 9780198086079
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Oxford University Press; https://corp.oup.com/; ; WMF Platz 1; Geislingen/Steige; Baden-W?rttemberg; 73312; Allemagne