What is it about?
The author observes that Gandhi as the founding father of post-colonial India is considerably better known globally today than his counterpart in China--Sun Yat-sen--and uses the contrast to revisit the familiar debate on modernization and Westernization. The author argues that it is time to move beyond the familiar terms of this debate and focus on the ubiquity of development as a global ideology.
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Why is it important?
The article provides an original critique of current development discourse by contrasting the thought of the respective founding fathers of modern China and India (Sun Yat-sen and Gandhi) on postcolonial nation-building.
Perspectives
The article fits in very well with the mandate of the journal that published it, which is Philosophy and Social Criticism. It is a good example of how philosophical analysis can be applied to political tracts to yield critical insights into concrete political issues that matter globally.
Professor Theresa Man Ling Lee
University of Guelph
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This page is a summary of: Modernity and postcolonial nationhood, Philosophy & Social Criticism, November 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0191453714554025.
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