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  • (Un) Thinking Nationalism: From India to (H)india

    by Victor Ferrao ...
    Nationalism thinks and marks the space of people, that it imagines belong to it. There is a constitutive spatial and a constructed loyalist political dimension to all forms of nationalism. (Un)thinking nationalism is an attempt to (re)mediate these marked spaces, constructed identities, crafted exclusions, deliberate inclusions and varied subject positions ranging from triumphant privileged ... Read more

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  • (Un) Thinking Nationalism: From India to (H)india

    Nationalism thinks and marks the space of people, that it imagines belong to it. There is a constitutive spatial and a constructed loyalist political dimension to all forms of nationalism. (Un)thinking nationalism is an attempt to (re)mediate these marked spaces, constructed identities, crafted exclusions, deliberate inclusions and varied subject positions ranging from triumphant privileged ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction

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  • The Great Awakening

    A Buddhist Social Theory

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  • Life and Words

    Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

    by Veena Das ...
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  • The Imaginary Institution of India

    Politics and Ideas

    For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scattered abroad. This collection finally presents his work in one convenient volume and, in doing so, reasserts ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Postsecular Religion

    Mourning Secular Futures

    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Ananda Abeysekara contends that democracy, along with its cherished secular norms, is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. Rooted in democracy's messianic promise is the belief that religious-political identity-such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, Christian, Muslim, or Tamil-can be critiqued, neutralized, improved, and changed, even while remaining inseparable from the genocide ... Read more

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  • Religion and the Specter of the West

    Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation

    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an ... Read more

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  • The Enchantment of Democracy and India

    Politics and Ideas

    Sudipta Kaviraj has long been recognized as among India’s most thoughtful and wide-ranging political thinkers and analysts, one of the subtlest and most learned writers on Indian politics. Paradoxically, this has remained something of a state secret, because Kaviraj’s writings have remained scattered in journals difficult to access.The essays in this volume try to approach Indian democracy from ... Read more

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  • Debates in Indian Philosophy

    Classical, Colonial, and Contemporary

    This volume traces the impact of colonialism and Western philosophy on the dialogical structure of Indian thought and highlights the general tendency in contemporary Indian philosophy to avoid direct dialogue as opposed to the rich and elaborate debates that formed the pivot of the classical Indian tradition. It defines three possible areas of debate: between Swami Vivekanand and Mahatama Gandhi; ... Read more

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  • (Un) Thinking Nationalism: From India to (H)india

    Nationalism thinks and marks the space of people, that it imagines belong to it. There is a constitutive spatial and a constructed loyalist political dimension to all forms of nationalism. (Un)thinking nationalism is an attempt to (re)mediate these marked spaces, constructed identities, crafted exclusions, deliberate inclusions and varied subject positions ranging from triumphant privileged ... Read more

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