02199nam a22002657a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200210009110000290011224500750014126000380021630000260025436500610028052012740034165000200161565000180163565000170165365000180167070000310168894200120171999900190173195201830175020221022094110.0221022b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789354420023  cAL  aeng  223a320.01bBANE  aPrathama Banerjee960105  aElementary aspects of the political: bHistories from the global south  aHyderabadbOrient Blackswanc2021  ax,274p.bPBc22x15cm.  2Human Rightsa4940b500.00c₹d625.00e20%f17-10-2022  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.   aThe Self960106  aAction960107  aIdea 960108  aPeople960109  aBANERJEE (Prathama)960110  2ddccBK  c224901d224901  00102ddc40708OTHaALbALd2022-10-21eBiblios Book Point, Surathkal, Mangalore-575014g500.00l1o320.01 BANEp076145r2023-08-02 00:00:00s2023-07-27v625.00w2022-10-22yBK