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Sovereignty Before Law, Salmoli Choudhuri, Moiz Tundawala
Sovereignty Before Law, Salmoli Choudhuri, Moiz Tundawala
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Book review: Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age, by Shruti Kapila, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, 328 pp., $37.00/£30.00, ISBN 9780691195223
A Case For Humanistic Theory, Salmoli Choudhuri, Moiz Tundawala
A Case For Humanistic Theory, Salmoli Choudhuri, Moiz Tundawala
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This article responds to a debate in Economic & Political Weekly on the state of theory in Indian academia. While earlier interventions focused on the “who” and “how” questions related to the subject and work of theory, a more fundamental question is addressed here: Why theory at all? In our age of permanent crises, the necessity to make a case for theory that can interpret the world rather than change it for the good has arisen due to the dominance of problem-solving and solution-driven approaches adopted by the social sciences.
Viability Of The ‘Democratic Liberalism’ Project, Prerna Dhoop
Viability Of The ‘Democratic Liberalism’ Project, Prerna Dhoop
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Book Review: From Free to Fair Markets: Liberalism after COVID -19 by Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden (Oxford University Press, 2022); pp 240, 24 GBP.
State Life: Land, Welfare And Management Of The Landless In Kerala, India, R. C. Sudheesh
State Life: Land, Welfare And Management Of The Landless In Kerala, India, R. C. Sudheesh
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The pressing need to manage the spiralling number of landless people around the world has compelled several states to experiment with scattered land distribution programmes in combination with welfare transfers, instead of comprehensive land reform. This article examines the chasm between land demands and state responses in such contexts. Focusing on the Aralam resettlement site for the landless Adivasis in Kerala, India, it argues that management of the landless could take the form of ‘state life’ — a life envisaged by the state rather than the life the people wish to lead. Three interlinked processes are shown to shape state …
Locating A Shadowy State In Queer, Feminist Politics, Atreyee Majumder
Locating A Shadowy State In Queer, Feminist Politics, Atreyee Majumder
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In this commentary, part of a book forum on Srila Roy’s (2022) book ”Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India”, I argue that the feminist and queer movement, in response to the neoliberal turn in India, is not totally separate from the Indian state formations. In fact, a shadowy state emerges in the affective life of citizens as an expression of what Timothy Mitchell would have called “state effect”.
Biraha, Atreyee Majumder
Biraha, Atreyee Majumder
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'The followers of Swami Shri Haridasji live in the sand-laden compound of Tatiasthan and assemble in song with devotees from the general public every evening. This musical tradition is called samaaj gaayan. They first sing facing the deity and then turn to their teacher, who arrives at the assembly a little later. Mobile phones and other technology are strictly forbidden.
This poem is an out-take from my ongoing ethnographic research in Vrindavan—the sacred geography of Krishna worship in the Bhakti tradition in northern India. This poem came from the evenings spent in the Tatiasthan shrine watching evening musical performances, …
Grounding The Basic Structure In Legal Theory, Sanjay Jain
Grounding The Basic Structure In Legal Theory, Sanjay Jain
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This article contributes to the everlasting debate on theorising the Basic Structure doctrine of the Indian Constitution. Having demonstrated that it cannot be justified either in orthodox positivism of Austin or Kelsenite normativity, the author makes the case to ground the debate in the modern avatar of analytical jurisprudence, popularly known as inclusive legal positivism.
Engaging Bhakti As/In Translation: An Outline Of A Methodological Approach To Analyse Ranade's Views About The "Saints And Prophets Of Maharashtra", Rinku Lamba
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The analysis in this article suggests that M G Ranade’s reflections in his essay about the ‘Saints and Prophets of Maharashtra’ are significant because they offer a site to unravel shifts from a premodern to a modern conception of moral order on the Indian subcontinent, in the context of the encounter with colonialism. For its role in allowing such unravelling, and for the way it permits attention to hitherto neglected dimensions of Ranade’s comparison between bhakti and the Protestant Reformation, this article argues for the value of investigating Ranade’s reflections through the framework of translation. While doing the above, the …