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100			_aPrathama Banerjee _960105
245			_aElementary aspects of the political: _bHistories from the global south
260			_aHyderabad _bOrient Blackswan _c2021
300			_ax,274p. _bPB _c22x15cm.
365			_2Human Rights _a4940 _b500.00 _c₹ _d625.00 _e20% _f17-10-2022
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			_aThe Self _960106
650			_aAction _960107
650			_aIdea _960108
650			_aPeople _960109
700			_aBANERJEE (Prathama) _960110
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