A Vast Subterranean Democracy: Pluralism in the 1920s

A Vast Subterranean Democracy: Pluralism in the 1920s

Chapter 3 examines a group of nationalist historians based in northern India in the early 1920s. It shows how these historians used the trope of an ‘ancient constitution’ in order to find federalist forms of popular democracy.

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1. Verfasser: Parasher, Tejas
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Chapter 3 examines a group of nationalist historians based in northern India in the early 1920s. It shows how these historians used the trope of an ‘ancient constitution’ in order to find federalist forms of popular democracy.
DOI:10.1017/9781009305563.003