Acharya, P.
administrative histories
American development theory
anachronism; and periodization
Anandamangal
Anderson, Benedict
anti-colonial: consciousness; early protest and
Arabic culture: chronicles of; language and Muslim rule
Arendt, H.
Asiatic Society
Assam: linguistic determination in; movement; problem
atman
Austin, J.L.
Ayodhya mosque controversy; see also Babri Masjid
Babri Masjid: crisis; demolition of
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
Bajrang Dal
Barrier, N.G.
Bengal: conquest of; Renaissance; speech community in
Bengali: bhadralok; British empire and; claim to distinction; culture; dialect; Europeanization of; historical literature; jati; language; literature; Marxism; ‘nation’; identity and; norm-language of; political rights and; Utilitarianism and; Vaishnavism writing
bhakti: cult; Hinduism; literature; movements
Bakhtin, M.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); communal politics of; electoral allies of; influence of; Shiv Sena's support to; vote on religion and; victory in elections
Bhargava, Rajeev
Bhavabhuti, Uttararamacharita of
bilingualism
Bose, Subhas Chandra
boundaries
Bourdieu, P.
bourgeois: political order in Europe; sciences
Brahmins/Brahminism
British: colonial administration; conquest and; historiography; identities and; Indian society and; legitimization of; linguistic identity and; policy; political discourse on; power in India; public opinion; reforms and; significance of; social affairs and; social theory
Buddhism/Buddhist
bureaucracy
capitalism/capitalist
caste: barriers; divisions; hierarchies; identities; mobilizations; orders; politics; system
causality
census
Chaitanya, avatar of Krishna
Chaitanyabhagavat
Chaitanyacharitamrita
Chakrabarti, Mukundaram
Chandidas
Chandimangal
Chandra, B.
Chatterjee, Bankimchandra: see under Chattopadhyay, Bankimchandra
Chatterjee, Partha
Chattopadhyay, Bankimchandra
Christianity
civil society
civilization
Clive, Robert
coalition governments
Cohn, Bernard
collective: action; self-determination
colonial: culture; discourse; economy; education; historiography; institutional system; intelligentsia; laws and rules; modernity; rationalism; reconstruction of Indian society; social transformation; state in India
colonialism; cultural invasion of; cultural strategy of; hegemonic discourse of; nationalism and; opposition to
common sense; Gramscian theory of; orbits of
communal/communalism
Communist Party; —of India (CPI-M); governments in Kerala, Tripura, and West Bengal
communists: during ‘people's war’ phase; insurgency and; opposition to liberalization; support to British war effort
communitarianism
community; assertion and politics of; cognitive identification of; enumerated; fuzzy; identity and; primordial; traditional and modern
Congress Party; advent of; anti-Congress trends; decline in electoral fortunes of; early stages of; factionalism in; India's relationship with the Soviet Union and; Indian nationalism and; Indira Gandhi and; Jawaharlal Nehru and; leadership of; liberalization policies of; linguistic provisions and; loss in elections of; Moderates and Extremists in; Muslim support to; policies of; secularism and; split in
Constituent Assembly; ideological conflicts in; national language and
constitution (Indian)
Cromwellian revolution
culture/cultural: bilingualism and; British intrusion and; colonial; composite; conflict; Gandhi and; homogenization of; identity; Indian society and; Jawaharlal Nehru and; organizations; process of; rationalist concept of; space of; transformation and; unity and
Danto, A.C.
decolonization, societies after
democracy/democratic; formal institutions of; Indian politics and; mobilization and; politics and; poverty and; success of
dependency theory
Derozio, Henry Louis Vivian
Derrida, Jacques
de Swann, Abram
de Tocqueville, A. 227
Deuskar, Sakharam Ganesh
development
dharma, Hindu society and rule of
dialects
Dilthey, W.
discourse
discursive space
Discovery of India, The
Disraeli, B.
distributive justice
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)
Dunn, John
dusri parampara
Dutt, R.C.
Dutt, R.P.
East India Company; economic growth; rent extraction by
economic planning
economic reforms; see also liberalization
economy of India
education
egotism
elite/elites: consensus; discourse of; in nationalist movement
election: issues; revolution; verdict
Election Commission
electoral politics
English: education; language
Enlightenment
enumeration (as classification)
Europe/European: capitalism; colonial rule and; culture and; democracy and; Enlightenment and; equality and; Indian society and; history of; missionaries and; modernity and; narratives of; nationalism and; rationalism and; romanticism and; science and; social theory and; social transformation in; societies and; suffrage in
evolutionary theories
Fadnavis, Nana
financial scams
Five Year Plan, Second
food shortages
Forward Bloc
Foucault, M.
Fox, R.G.
French Revolution
Gadamer, Hans Georg
Gandhi, Indira; assassination of; centralization of power under; Congress under; electoral moves; of Emergency under; leadership and
Gandhi, Mahatma; discourse of; on modernity; nationalism of; politics of
Gandhi–Irwin Pact
Gandhi, Rajiv
Gellner, E.
gemeinschaft
Germany, unification of
gesellschaft
Government of India Act of 1935
Gowda, Deve
Gramsci, Antonio
Guha, R.
Guizot, Francois
Harishchandra, Bharatendu
Haryana Vikas Party
Hastings, Warren
heavy industry, state-managed
Hegel, G.W.F.; theory of history
hegemony passim
Hindi; chauvinism and; demand for replacement of English and; as national language; as official; language standardization of
Hindu: caste order; extemism; history and; majoritarianism; Muslim rulers and; —nationalism; nationalist parties; others and; social ordering; social theory; society; —tradition
Hinduism
Hindustani (language)
history/historical/historicism/historiography
identity: enumerated; formation; reconfiguration of
ideology/ideological
illiteracy
‘imagined community’
‘imaginary histories’
imperial/imperialism:; historiography and; naturalism and
import-substituting industrialization
income, inequalities in
Indian: antiquity; colonialism; culture; history; intellectuals; nationalism
Indian National Congress: see Congress
Indianness
Indus Valley civilization
industrial/industrialization
inequality
institution/institutional
Islam/Islamic; conversion to; culture; dynasties; equality in; religious doctrines of
Italian nationalism
Jainism
Jan Sangh
Janata coalition
Janata Dal
jati system
Jayadeva
Jayalalitha, J.
Jnanandas
Judaic culture, chronicles of
Kashiramdas, Mahabharata of
Kashmir movement
Kasim, Mir
Kathopanishad
Kaviraj, Krishnadas, Chaitanyacharitamrita of
Kayasthas
Keynesian economics
Khadi boli (language)
Khilnani, Sunil
knowledge
Koselleck, R.
Kothari, Rajni
language; alterations in; colonialist and vernacular; composite; culture and; debate in Constituent Assembly on; in a fuzzy world; and historical formation of identities; ‘internal economy’ of; and politics; region and; rights; social functions of
Left parties
Lenin, V.I.
liberalism
‘liberalization’
linguistic: colonialism and; communities; identities; region and; separatism
literacy
Locke, John
Lytton, Lord
MacIntyre, Alasdair
Madan, T.N.
Madras Presidency
Mahabharata
Maine, Henry
majoritarianism
Mandal Commission
Mangalkavyas, of Bengal
Manusmrti
Mao Tse Tung
Marx, Karl
Marxism
middle class
Mill, John Stuart
minority rights
modernity; civilization of; in Europe; Gandhi on; nationalist thinking on; and subjection; and tradition
modernization theory
Mohenjodaro
Montagu–Chelmsford reforms (1919)
Montesquieu, C.S.
Mughal empire
Mukhopadhyay, Bhudev; and indigenist social theory; Samajik Prabandha of; Swapnalabdha Bharatvarsher Itihas of
Müller, Max
Munshi-Ayyangar formula
Muslim: Arabic and Persian languages and; community; rule in India; stable rule of; structure of society and
nada (form of sound)
Nagel, Thomas
Nandy, Ashis
Naoroji, Dadabhai
Napoleon
Narayan, Jayaprakash
narrative/narratives; of colonial rule; of contract; empowering; nationalist
nation-building; boundaries of; community and; objectivity of; region and; relation with earlier identities; states and
national community, discovery of
National Front
nationalism; colonialism and; discourse of; Gandhi and; modern; narratives of; Nehru and; political thinking of; since Independence; syllogistic structure of; understanding
nationalist: diglossia; discourse; ideology; movement
naturalist religion
Nazism
Nehru, Jawaharlal; achievements under; democracy of; development policy of; Discovery of India of; economic policies under; election victories under; institutional pattern and; linguistic reorganization of; states and; on modern elite class; narratives of; nationalism of; socialism and
Nehru, Motilal
occidentalism
official/national language
Olson, Mancur
oral incantations
Orient, conception of
Orientalism
Orientalist constructions
Oriya (language)
other/otherness; self and theory of
Owen, Robert
paradhinata
paraloukika, notion of
Partition (of India)
Patel, Sardar
patriotism
peasants revolts
Permanent Settlement
Persian (language)
planning, state
Planning Commission
Plassey, Battle of
political: compliance; diagnosis; history; identity; power; relations; theory
politics; in colonial society; discourse of; evolution of; language and; in the vernacular
Pollock, Sheldon
Popper, Karl
poverty
power: discourse of; state structure of
printing
primordial communities
property rights
public realm
public/state sector
publicity; concept of; notion of
Punjab
Punjabi (language)
Punjabi suba, demand for
Puranas
ramarajya
Ramayana
Ramcharitmanas
Rani of Jhansi
Ranjit Singh
Rao, P.V. Narasimha
rational social theory
rationalism/rationalistic ; colonial narrative; culture; discourse; modernity; in politics
Raychaudhuri, Tapan
region/regional: autonomy movement of 1950s; identities; and language; and nation; national identities and; political—; vernacular cultures and
religion/religious: developments and languages; identities; in India; power and; rationality of
reservations
revolt of 1857
rights; equality of; to protest; to vote
Roman empire
Rousseau, J.
Roy, D.L.
Roy, M.N.
Roy, Ram Mohan
Russian empire
Saberwal, Satish
Said, Edward
Samajik Prabandha
Samajwadi Party (SP)
Samata Party
Sanatana dharma
Sanskrit (language)
Sarkar, Jadunath
Satavahanas, history of
Sathyamurthy, T.V.
sati, practice of
Schopenhauer
Seal, Anil
secular/secularism
self, Hindu concept of
Seshan, T.N.
Shah Bano case
Shaivas
Shiromani Akali Dal, Punjab
Shiv Sena, Maharashtra
Singh, Manmohan
Singh, Namwar
Skinner, Quentin
slavery
social: action; change; conduct; democracy; hierarchy; identity; justice; ontology; organizations; power; relations; science; theory; Western theory
socialism
socialist ideology/principles
society: development in; discursive type of; history of Indian; individual's relation with; language communities in; modern conception of; political division and; segmentation of; and space for; and the state; structure of Hindu; traditional construction of
Soviet Union
Srinivas, M.N.
state-building; concept of; formation; linguistic reorganization of; meaning of; power of; and regional parties; and society; space of; structure of
statecraft, principles of Indian
structuralism
subordinate groups
subaltern cultures
Swadharma
Swadesh
Swajati
Swajatiyata
Swapnalabdha Bharatvarsher Itihas
Tagore, Abanindranath
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC)
Tamil Nadu, voting pattern in
Tara Chand
Telugu Desam, Andhra Pradesh ‘Third World’
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar
Tipu Sultan
Tocquevelle: see under de Tocqueville
Tönnies, Ferdinand
tradition/traditional: collective selves and; culture and; Hindu society and; ritual prohibitions and; social space in; historicity of; society and
transfer of power (1947)
Tulsidas, Ramcharitamanas of
United Front (government of)
universal adult suffrage
Urdu (language)
Utilitarian/Utilitarianism
Uttararamacharita
Vais(h) nava/Vais(h) navism
Vajpayee, Atal Bihari
Valmiki Ramayana of
Vande Mataram
vernacular: education; languages; literary discourse; literature
Vidyapati
Vidyasagar
Vidyasundarkavya
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)
Vivekananda, Swami
Volosinov, V.N.
Voltaire
Vrindavandas, Chaitanyabhagavat of
Weber, Max
West Bengal
Western: civilization; cultural tradition; education; intelligentsia and; modernity; rationalism
Whiggism
Wittgenstein, L.
written cultures
‘Young Bengal’ movement