The concept of civil society in modern Indian political thought: appropriation and reconceptualisation of a Western liberal concept

Abstract

Esta comunicación presentada en la "21st International Conference in the History of Concepts" analiza cómo el movimiento nacionalista indio se apropió del concepto liberal de sociedad civil introducido por los británicos en la India colonial y lo hizo suyo.This paper presented at the 21st International Conference in the History of Concepts analyses how the Indian nationalist movement appropriated the liberal concept of civil society introduced by the British in colonial India and made it its own.