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082			_a320.01 _bBAN
100			_aBanerjee, Prathama
245			_aElementary aspects of the political : histories from the global south
260			_bOrient BlackSwan, _aHyderabad : _c2021
300			_ax, 274 p. ; _bill., (b & w), _c23 cm
365			_b695.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aElementary Aspects of the Political studies the rise of modern politics in India between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries in the encounter between colonial modern, classical Indian, Indo-Persian and regional vernacular ideas. It unpacks the modern conception of the political into four elementary aspects – Self, Action, Idea and People – and shows how each element is structured around a conceptual instability, rendering its very elementary status questionable. Thus, the political self is split by the tension between renunciation and realpolitik; action is driven by the contradiction between labour and nishakama karma, each with its distinctive means-end configuration; the idea torn by its troubled relationships with the economic and the spiritual; and the people forever strung between being pure structure, namely the political party, and being pure fiction, namely the protagonist of theatre, novel and poetry. The book invites us to go beyond postcolonial and decolonial criticism and produce new political theory, inspired by ideas and experiences of the non-European world. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, philosophy, political science, postcolonial theory, cultural and literary studies.
650			_aChanakya
650			_a Hermeneutics
650			_a Symbolism
650			_aColonialism
650			_aAmbedkar,B.R
650			_aIslam
650			_aCaste
650			_aCommunists
650			_aEquality
650			_aIndia
650			_aIPTA
650			_aMarxism
650			_aPeasant
650			_aVivekananda
650			_aLitwerature
650			_aTheatre
650			_aMahatma Gandhi
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