Upton Robert E. (Marie Sklodowska - Curie Global Fellow At Ca Foscari University Of Venice)
Upton Robert E. (Marie Sklodowska - Curie Global Fellow At Ca Foscari University Of Venice) - The Thought Of Bal Gangadhar Tilak An Intellectual Biography - Hardcover
Upton Robert E. (Marie Sklodowska - Curie Global Fellow At Ca Foscari University Of Venice) - The Thought Of Bal Gangadhar Tilak An Intellectual Biography - Hardcover
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Description: This work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought focusing on his views on 'communal relations within the Indian polity on caste and reform in Hindu society and on political ethics regarding violence and non - cooperation. The Thought of Bal Gangadhar Tilak adopts a contextualist approach situating his ideas in local Maharashtrian as well as pan - Indian and global cultural - intellectual contexts. The approach blends Tilak's quotidian journalism and speeches alongside his canonical texts on Aryan history and on the Bhagavad Gita. The work marks a departure from current interpretations emphatically arguing that he is misappropriated and/or misunderstood as a proto - Hindutva thinker. Instead he is revealed to be a radical liberal who supports counter - autocratic violence a majoritarian pluralist in terms of intercommunity relations a self - strengthening reformer who focuses on masculinity and a Brahmin supremacist who is committed to reshaping India for the challenges of modernity. This book lays emphasis on his remarkable recognition as the nation's 'founding father and particularly demonstrates how this later appropriation by Gandhi was contested by those celebrating Tilak's approach to contest him during the crucial mid - 1920s period when he was indelibly linked to re - emerging Hindutva. More recently growing ahistorical demi - official insistence on his social progressivism illustrates a change in India's public culture as does the use of popular or even legal pressure to de - legitimize perennial criticism of Tilak's socio - political positions.
Title: The Thought Of Bal Gangadhar Tilak An Intellectual Biography
Author(s): Upton Robert E. (Marie Sklodowska - Curie Global Fellow At Ca Foscari University Of Venice)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198900658
Pages: 334 Pages
Publication Date: 6/14/2024
Category: Colonialism & Imperialism
Description: This work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought focusing on his views on 'communal relations within the Indian polity on caste and reform in Hindu society and on political ethics regarding violence and non - cooperation. The Thought of Bal Gangadhar Tilak adopts a contextualist approach situating his ideas in local Maharashtrian as well as pan - Indian and global cultural - intellectual contexts. The approach blends Tilak's quotidian journalism and speeches alongside his canonical texts on Aryan history and on the Bhagavad Gita. The work marks a departure from current interpretations emphatically arguing that he is misappropriated and/or misunderstood as a proto - Hindutva thinker. Instead he is revealed to be a radical liberal who supports counter - autocratic violence a majoritarian pluralist in terms of intercommunity relations a self - strengthening reformer who focuses on masculinity and a Brahmin supremacist who is committed to reshaping India for the challenges of modernity. This book lays emphasis on his remarkable recognition as the nation's 'founding father and particularly demonstrates how this later appropriation by Gandhi was contested by those celebrating Tilak's approach to contest him during the crucial mid - 1920s period when he was indelibly linked to re - emerging Hindutva. More recently growing ahistorical demi - official insistence on his social progressivism illustrates a change in India's public culture as does the use of popular or even legal pressure to de - legitimize perennial criticism of Tilak's socio - political positions.
Title: The Thought Of Bal Gangadhar Tilak An Intellectual Biography
Author(s): Upton Robert E. (Marie Sklodowska - Curie Global Fellow At Ca Foscari University Of Venice)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198900658
Pages: 334 Pages
Publication Date: 6/14/2024
Category: Colonialism & Imperialism
