Developing India

An Intellectual and Social History c.1930-50
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-567058-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 631 g

This book considers how the idea of development in India took shape in the 1930s and the 1940s, drawing on a variety of intellectual resources, driven by immediate political battles, yet inspired by a vision of the future that incorporated notions of freedom and fairness. The argument is that an Indian notion of development, consciously different from the western one based on free trade and industrialization, could emerge in the inter-war period, when the future of capitalism in the west did not appear as assured as it did in the nineteenth century. The author identifies three interlocking themes around which development was conceptualized during this period the importance of science, technology, the need for the government to express certain social concerns, and the need of for national discipline. The book opens up a new field of historiography of South Asia, that of an intellectual history of late colonialism in India, and of the nationalism that succeeded it.

Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Problem, The Approach
- Chapter I: 1. Political Economy, Precedents and ideas, metropolitan and colobnial, 2. Shared Spaces of Domination and Resistance, 3. Terminology, 4. The circulation of Ideas and Information, 4. Conclusion
- Chapter II: A Reformed Imperium? 1. Levels of Governance and the Narrow Range, 2. The 1930s: Aberrations and Default Settings, 3. Post-war Reconstruction and Development, 4. The Fringes of Government, 5. Conclusions
- Chapter III. Towards a political Philosophy of the Village Community: The debate on Gandhian ideas, Placing Gandhi, The political context, Against Gandhi, Gandhi s earlier interventions, 2. Gandhi s Economic Avatar and the coming of J C Kumarappa The Uses of Economic Agreement, Addressing the Intelligentsia
- 3. Kumarappa s Village Movement: Evolution, Economics, and Civilization, Science, Economics and the Eastern Modern, Practical Arguments, 4. Conclusions: Statement, Communicability, (Mis?)readings
- Chapter IV. Devel
- opment: Possible Nations, 1. Middle Class Intellectuals, 2. Form and Content: Compromise Formulae, Divergent Goals, 3. Lineages. Socialism, Science, Morality, Modernity, National Discipline, 4. The Uses of a Language Legitimacy
- Chapter V. Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Reference

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of modern Indian history, scholars working on the history of development and economic history of modern India as well as extremely relevant for NGOs and government organizations involved in development work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zachariah, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Zachariah, Professor, Lecturer, International History, Department of History, University of Sheffield