On Gandhi's critique of the state: Sources, contexts, conjunctures

Modern Intellectual History

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 535-563

  Mantena, Karuna ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84868590280     PISSN: 14792443     EISSN: 14792451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1479244312000194     Document Type: Review

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3. and David Gilmartin, "Rule of Law, Rule of Life: Caste, Democracy, and the Courts in India", American Historical Review 115/2 (April 2010), 406-27.
4. M. K. Gandhi, "Draft Constitution of Congress (29-1-1948)", in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (electronic book), 98 vols. (New Delhi, 1999), 98: 333.
5. Fred Cooper and Jane Burbank, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, 2011);
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10. M. K. Gandhi, "The Charkha (9-1-1940)", CWMG, 77: 209.
11. M. K. Gandhi, "Speech at Chatham House Meeting (20-10-1931)", CWMG, 54: 56-7.
12. The Fifth Report, 157-8.
13. M. K. Gandhi, "Petition to Natal Assembly (28-6-1894)", CWMG, 1: 145.
14. M. K. Gandhi, "Speech at Y.M.C.A., Calcutta (25-8-1925)", CWMG, 32: 332.
15. M. K. Gandhi, "Speech on Swadeshi at Missionary Conference, Madras (14-2-1916)", CWMG, 15: 160.
16. M. K. Gandhi, "Speech at Meeting of Deccan Princes (28-7-1946)", CWMG, 91: 372.
17. Henry Sumner Maine, Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas (London, 1861), 272.
18. Henry Sumner Maine, Village-Communities in the East and West (London, 1876), 66, 117, 125-7, 192.
19. For an extended discussion of Maine's theory of kinship see Karuna Mantena, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism (Princeton, 2010), chap. 2.
20. Maine, Ancient Law, 139.
21. Maine, "The Effects of Observation of India upon European Thought", in idem, Village-Communities, 219-20.
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23. Maine, Early History of Institutions, 384.
24. Maine, Village-Communities, 28.
25. Henry Sumner Maine, Popular Government (Indianapolis, 1976).
26. Pateman, Participation and Democratic Theory, 22-44.
27. Harold J. Laski, Authority in the Modern State (New Haven, 1919), 31-58.
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29. David Runciman, Pluralism and the Personality of the State (Cambridge, 1997).
30. Laski, Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty, 17.
31. G. D. H. Cole, "Conflicting Social Obligations", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 15 (1914-15), 140-59.
32. G. D. H. Cole, "The Nature of the State in Its External Relations", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 16 (1915-1916), 310-25.
33. Jeanne Morefield's illuminating discussion of Cole's view of sovereignty in "Democratic Commonwealth or Historic Fiction: Early Twentieth Century Imperialist and Pluralist Narratives of State Responsibility", presentation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston (2008).
34. See Laborde, Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France, 1900-25.
35. Har Narain Sinha, Sovereignty in Ancient Indian Polity: A Study in the Evolution of Early Indian State (London, 1938).
36. Sumit Sarkar, The Swadeshi Movement of Bengal 1903-1908 (New Delhi, 1973).
37. C. A. Bayly's discussion of Mukerjee in "Empires and Indian Liberals", in Catherine Hall and Keith McClelland, eds., Race, Nation and Empire: Making Histories 1750 to the Present (Manchester, 2010), 74-95.
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45. Roger Owen, "Anthropology and Imperial Administration: Sir Alfred Lyall and the Official Uses of Theories of Social Change Developed in India after 1857" , in T. Asad, ed., Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter (London, 1975), 223-43.
46. Agarwal, following Mukerjee, also read the village republic to be "a product of mature thought and serious experimentation" as opposed to "a relic and survival of tribal communism". Agarwal, Gandhian Constitution, 12.
47. Quoted in Baljit Singh, "Mukerjee as a Pioneer in Indian Economics", in idem, ed., The Frontiers of Social Science, 436.
48. Gandhi, "Speech at Meeting of Deccan Princes", 371.
49. Gandhi, "Independence", 325-6.
50. M. K. Gandhi, "Question Box (18-7-42)", CWMG, 83: 113.
51. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, 256.
52. "Men do not make communitiesùthey are born and bred in them". G. D. H. Cole, Social Theory (London, 1920), 1.
53. Peter Lamb, "G. D. H. Cole on the General Will: A Socialist Reflects on Rousseau", European Journal of Political Theory 4/3(2005), 283-300.
54. M. K. Gandhi, "Enlightened AnarchyùA Political Ideal (Jan 1939)", CWMG, 74: 380
55. M. K. Gandhi, "Hyderabad (8-10-1940)", CWMG, 79: 293.
56. M. K. Gandhi, "Interview to Nirmal Kumar Bose (9/10-11-34)", CWMG, 65: 318.
57. M. K. Gandhi, "Hand-Spun as Measure of Value (13-1-1942)", CWMG, 81: 424.
58. See especially M. K. Gandhi, "Constructive ProgrammeùIts Meaning and Place (13-12-1941)", CWMG, 81: 355-74.
59. M. K. Gandhi, "Our Helplessness (24-2-1929)", CWMG, 45: 104.
60. M. K. Gandhi, "Foreword to 'Constructive ProgrammeùIts Meaning and Place' (13-11-1945)", CWMG, 88: 325.
61. Gandhi, "Draft Constitution of Congress", 333.