Who of the following gave the idea of ‘Saintly Idiom’ in Indian politics ?
In his influential work The Government and Politics of India (1964), British political scientist W.H. Morris-Jones analyzed Indian political discourse through three distinct…
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Who of the following gave the idea of ‘Saintly Idiom’ in Indian politics ?
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In his influential work The Government and Politics of India (1964), British political scientist W.H. Morris-Jones analyzed Indian political discourse through three distinct ‘idioms’ or languages of politics: the ‘modern’ idiom of constitutionalism and planning, the ‘traditional’ idiom of caste and community, and the ‘saintly’ idiom exemplified by Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave, and Jayaprakash Narayan.
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