{"product_id":"radical-equality-aishwary-kumar-9780804791953","title":"Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eB.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two figures whose thought and legacies have most strongly shaped the contours of Indian democracy, are typically considered antagonists who held irreconcilable views on empire, politics, and society. As such, they are rarely studied together. This book reassesses their complex relationship, focusing on their shared commitment to equality and justice, which for them was inseparable from anticolonial struggles for sovereignty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoth men inherited the concept of equality from Western humanism, but their ideas mark a radical turn in humanist conceptions of politics. This study recovers the philosophical foundations of their thought in Indian and Western traditions, religious and secular alike. Attending to moments of difficulty in their conceptions of justice and their languages of nonviolence, it probes the nature of risk that radical democracy's desire for inclusion opens within modern political thought. In excavating Ambedkar and Gandhi's intellectual kinship, \u003ci\u003eRadical Equality\u003c\/i\u003e allows them to shed light on each other, even as it places them within a global constellation of moral and political visions. The story of their struggle against inequality, violence, and empire thus transcends national boundaries and unfolds within a universal history of citizenship and dissent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aishwary Kumar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804791953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804791953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Aishwary Kumar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059765342463,"sku":"9780804791953","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb088fa9-04ea-4588-9d1b-f37ee3fc4938.jpg?v=1685060201","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/radical-equality-aishwary-kumar-9780804791953","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}