Gandhi, Leela

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The common cause postcolonial ethics and the practice of democracy, 1900 - 1955 / Leela Gandhi. . — New Delhi : Permanent Black, 2015.

xi, 240 p.

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.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects.
Postcolonialism--Moral and ethical aspects.--India
Anti-imperialist movements--India