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100	1		_aVisana, Vikram, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aUncivil liberalism : _blabour, capital and commercial society in Dadabhai Naoroji's political thought / _cVikram Visana.
264		1	_aCambridge ; _aNew York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2022.
300			_axv, 241 p., _c22 cm. _fHB
490	0		_aGlobal South Asians
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aSociality in an imperial and industrial age -- Sociality and the parsis of western India -- Civil society and social reform -- Conceptualizing the drain theory -- Making commercial society in India -- Making commercial society in Britain -- The afterlives of Naoroji's political thought.
520			_a"Uncivil Liberalism studies how ideas of liberty from the colonized South claimed universality in the North. Recovering the political theory of Dadabhai Naoroji, India's pre-eminent liberal, this book offers an original global history of this process by focusing on Naoroji's preoccupation with social interdependence and civil peace in an age of growing cultural diversity and economic inequality. The story of Naoroji's political theory emerges from an in-depth contextualization of the Parsi minority in western India and Naoroji's engagement with the religious, social, political and economic debate that preoccupied the Parsi public sphere in nineteenth-century Bombay. Then, using Naoroji's detailed reflections on his career as a social reformer, entrepreneur and politician in India and Britain, the book reconstructs how his formative experiences in India's smallest minority produced some of South Asia's most globally significant political thought. As a contribution to theory, the book shows how Naoroji used political economy to critique British liberalism's incapacity for civil peace by linking periods of cultural and ethnic fragmentation and communal rioting in colonial Bombay with the Parsis' economic decline, which had rendered the minority less capable of funding the philanthropy that had maintained Bombay's cosmopolitan civil society. Naoroji responded by innovating his own liberal theory predicated on an economic republicanism that could guarantee the social contract between autonomous labourers liberated from the arbitrary mediation of financial capital and parasitic bureaucracy. Significantly, the author draws attention to how Naoroji seeded 'Western' thinkers with these ideas and influenced numerous ideologies in colonial and postcolonial India. In so doing, the book offers a compelling argument which reframes Indian 'nationalists' as global thinkers"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aNaoroji, Dadabhai, _d1825-1917.
650		0	_aPolitical science _zIndia.
650		0	_aLiberalism _zIndia
650		7	_aHISTORY / Asia / South / General _2bisacsh
651		0	_aIndia _xPolitics and goverment _y1857-1919.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aVisana, Vikram. _tUncivil liberalism _dCambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 _z9781009215527 _w(DLC) 2022038094
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