Righteous Republic (Record no. 68053)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674417328
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : International Book Distributors
Distributor address : 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Bill Number : 122797
Bill Date : 25/04/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 320.0954 VAJ
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Vajpeyi, Ananya.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Righteous Republic
Remainder of title : The Political Foundations of Modern India.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Ananya Vajpeyi.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , England
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Harvard University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2014.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxiv, 341p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 419
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought.<br/><br/>Taking five of the most important founding figures―Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R. Ambedkar―Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India’s founders went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence.<br/><br/>Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance, the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new republic they envisaged would embody both India’s struggle for sovereignty and its quest for the self.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political Science
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ananya Vajpeyi.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 08/05/2026 International Book Distributors 419.00   320.0954 VAJ 31491 08/05/2026 08/05/2026 Books
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