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The Nation Form: Essays on Indian Nationalism

The Nation Form: Essays on Indian Nationalism

Ranabir Samaddar

This selection of writings by Ranabir Samaddar fills in that void and presents a whole range of dimensions, perspectives, and controversies of the last two decades on the question of the nation in India.
The Materiality of Politics: Volume 2: Subject Positions in ...

The Materiality of Politics: Volume 2: Subject Positions in ...

Ranabir Samaddar

Through a series of historical illustrations, the author investigates the political aspects of violence, law, terror, protection, justice and post-colonial governance.
A Biography of the Indian Nation, 1947-1997

A Biography of the Indian Nation, 1947-1997

Ranabir Samaddar

The volume offers an elegant and lucid analysis of a complex and dynamic process, delineating a theory of Indian nationalism that is not only unique in its approach but exhaustive in its scope.
Government of Peace: Social Governance, Security and the ...

Government of Peace: Social Governance, Security and the ...

Ranabir Samaddar

5 Jeffrey Witsoe, 'Corruption as Power: Caste and the Political Imagination of the Postcolonial State', American Ethnologist, vol. 38 no. 1, 2011, pp. 73–85. 6 Considered one of the most gruesome examples of violation of human rights, police ...
Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age

Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age

Ranabir Samaddar

This book seeks to explicitly engage Marxist and post-colonial theory to place Marxism in the context of the post-colonial age.
Refugees and the State: Practices of Asylum and Care in ...

Refugees and the State: Practices of Asylum and Care in ...

Ranabir Samaddar

... to represent the State in all matters international and may by an agreement, convention or treaties incur obligations which in international law are binding upon the State.' In the Gramophone Company of India Limited v. Birendra Pandey,7 ...
Socialist Perspective

Socialist Perspective

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... Mukhopadhyay Sibnarayan Chatterjee Satyabrata Dutta Radharaman Chakraborty, Sobhanlal Dattagupta, Asoke Kumar Sarkar, Amal Chattopadhyay, Bholanath Bandyopadhyay, Ranabir Samaddar and Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay Kama!
Government of Peace: Social Governance, Security and the ...

Government of Peace: Social Governance, Security and the ...

Ranabir Samaddar

Government of Peace addresses a major question in world politics today: how does post-colonial democracy produce a form of governance that copes with conflicts, insurgencies, revolts, and acute dissents?
Emergence of the Political Subject

Emergence of the Political Subject

Ranabir Samaddar

This book is on the political subject, the conditions of its emergence, and the theoretical implications of this emergence, particularly those for our history.
Passive Revolution in West Bengal: 1977-2011

Passive Revolution in West Bengal: 1977-2011

Ranabir Samaddar

In the wake of the enormous interest across the globe in the fall of the Left Front in West Bengal, this book describes the Left era as one of passive revolution: limited reforms and changes, big compromises, corruption of the commissars ...
Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India

Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India

Ranabir Samaddar

Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India and its companion volume Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a post-colonial democracy governed?
Neo-Liberal Strategies of Governing India

Neo-Liberal Strategies of Governing India

Ranabir Samaddar

Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India and its companion volume Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a post-colonial democracy governed?

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