The common cause : postcolonial ethics and the practice of democracy, 1900 - 1955

Publication Data

• Title The common cause : postcolonial ethics and the practice of democracy, 1900 - 1955
• Author Leela Gandhi
• Publisher The University of Chicago Press
• Publication date 2014
• Publication location Chicago
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: moral imperfection: an ethics for democracy
After virtue: the strange case of belle époque socialist antimaterialism
On descent: stories from the gurus of modern India
Elementary virtues: Great War and the crisis of European man
Inconsequence: some little-known mutinies around 1946
Epilogue: paths of ahimsaic historiography.

Topics

• Democracy :: Moral and ethical aspects
• Postcolonialism :: Moral and ethical aspects
• Postcolonialism :: India
• 016648958

The common cause : postcolonial ethics and the practice of democracy, 1900 - 1955 by Leela Gandhi. ISBN 9780226019901. Published by The University of Chicago Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.