TY - BOOK AU - Gandhi,Leela TI - The common cause: postcolonial ethics and the practice of democracy, 1900 - 1955 SN - 9780226019871 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - JC423 .G36 2014 U1 - 172.0954/09041 23 KW - Democracy KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Postcolonialism KW - India KW - Anti-imperialist movements N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-227) and index; Introduction: moral imperfection: an ethics for democracy -- After virtue: the strange case of belle époque socialist antimaterialism -- On descent: stories from the gurus of modern India -- Elementary virtues: Great War and the crisis of European man -- Inconsequence: some little-known mutinies around 1946 -- Epilogue: paths of ahimsaic historiography; License restrictions may limit access UR - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio11173129 ER -