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An urgent and panoramic work on how democracy has been imagined by the great political and cultural figures of Indiawritten by one of the most distinguished political scientists in the country.Languages of Freedom asks a simple but urgent question: what does it mean to be freeand why does freedom so often slip through our hands? In these wide-ranging and incisive essays, political scientist Neera Chandhoke moves between political theory, mid-20th-century Hindi cinema and Urdu poetry of the Progressive Writers Movement to trace how freedom has been imagined, claimed and constrained in modern India.Beginning with early conceptions of freedomfrom 19th-century revivalists to the idea of Swaraj as articulated by Dadabhai Naoroji and transformed by Gandhishe examines how Indian culture came to be narrowly identified with Hindu culture. Revisiting landmark debates on swaraj, particularly those initiated by philosopher K.C. Bhattacharya, she shows how attempts to free the Indian mind from Western domination often overlooked the richness of our shared inheritance. The book then turns to the 1930s, when, inspired by socialist currents worldwide, Urdu poets like Faiz, Majaz, Sahir and Majrooh reimagined freedom beyond independence and gave moral depth to the movement against colonialism. Cinema carried this argument forward. Examining V. Shantarams reformist films such as Sant Tukaram, and the searing critiques of Guru Dutt and Bimal Roy, Chandhoke shows how filmmakers exposed the limits of political freedom in a society still marked by poverty and inequality.The final essay confronts a difficult question: can India think politically in its own voice after colonialism? What would it mean to write an Indian political theory grounded in our histories, yet alive to the present?Across these essays runs a single insight: freedom is never a uniform, settled idea. It is argued over in philosophy, fought for in politics, and imagined in literature and popular cultureand it always runs the risk of being narrowed or lost. In recovering these different languages of freedom, Chandhoke invites us to see both what has been achieved and what remains at stake.
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Author
Neera Chandhoke
Publisher
Speaking Tiger
Number of Pages
100
Language
English
SKU
BK0543067
ISBN
9789363361119
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm
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Paperback
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