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Simultaneously a contribution to history and to political theory, this insightful reading opens up a striking vantage point from which to explore the implications the now-global concepts of political subjecthood, political action, political ideology, and people. Prathama Banerjee's book exemplifies what it means to say that postcolonial theory can redefine the very terms of political theory. In sum, this is a landmark work of immense originality and brilliance. -- Ajay Skaria, author of * Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance * A brilliantly original study of the relation between philosophical ideas and political practice, this book by Prathama Banerjee explores how key ideas drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Western traditions have shaped the field of the political in India. While analyzing the complex and often ambiguous relations of the political with religion, economy, literature, theater, and art, she gives us many surprisingly new insights into such canonical thinkers as Bankim, Aurobindo, Gandhi, Iqbal, and Ambedkar. -- Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

Simultaneously a contribution to history and to political theory, this insightful reading opens up a striking vantage point from which to explore the implications of the now-global concepts of political subjecthood, political action, political ideology, and people. Prathama Banerjee's book exemplifies what it means when we say that postcolonial theory can redefine the very terms of political theory. In sum, this is a landmark work of immense originality and brilliance. -- Ajay Skaria, author of * Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance * A brilliantly original study of the relation between philosophical ideas and political practice, this book by Prathama Banerjee explores how key ideas drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Western traditions have shaped the field of the political in India. While analyzing the complex and often ambiguous relations of the political with religion, economy, literature, theater, and art, she gives us many surprising new insights into such canonical thinkers as Bankim, Aurobindo, Gandhi, Iqbal, and Ambedkar. -- Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

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Prathama Banerjee is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India, and author of Politics of Time: ""Primitives"" and History-Writing in a Colonial Society.

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