The Yoga of Power: Yoga as Political Thought and Practice in India

Author:   Christian Lee Novetzke ,  Sunila Kalé
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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9780231220019


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   10 December 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Christian Lee Novetzke ,  Sunila Kalé
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231220019


ISBN 10:   0231220014
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   10 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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This brilliant work reveals a new way of understanding yoga which makes sense of a hugely important but hitherto overlooked aspect of its history. It is essential reading for students and scholars of yoga. -- Jim Mallinson, coauthor of <i>Roots of Yoga</i>


This brilliant work reveals a new way of understanding yoga which makes sense of a hugely important but hitherto overlooked aspect of its history. It is essential reading for students and scholars of yoga. -- Jim Mallinson, coauthor of <i>Roots of Yoga</i> Novetzke and Kale’s combined disciplinary insights – from Religious Studies and Political Science – provide something that is extremely rare in the study of Indian politics: a convincing argument for how and why it is critically important to understand political philosophy in a way that engages with modernity but is not defined by the ideological supposition of Enlightenment reasoning. The authors of Yoga of Power do a masterful job of radically demythologizing yoga. -- Joseph S. Alter, author of <i>Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy</i> The Yoga of Power is a marvelous piece of scholarship that argues that yoga is more than either a school of philosophy or a regime of psychophysical practice, but rather rewrites the history of yoga as an enduring tradition of political thought and practice in India. Combining textual reading, archival work, and ethnographic study, the book intervenes in the disciplines of History and Area Studies by demonstrating the epistemological gains of breaching the temporal boundaries between the pre-colonial, the colonial and the postcolonial, urging us to rethink what we imagine today as politics and the political. -- Prathama Banerjee, author of <i>Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South</i>


This brilliant work reveals a new way of understanding yoga that makes sense of a hugely important but hitherto overlooked aspect of its history. It is essential reading for students and scholars of yoga. -- Jim Mallinson, coauthor of <i>Roots of Yoga</i> Novetzke and Kalé’s combined disciplinary insights—from religious studies and political science—provide something that is extremely rare in the study of Indian politics: a convincing argument for how and why it is critically important to understand political philosophy in a way that engages with modernity but is not defined by the ideological supposition of Enlightenment reasoning. The authors of The Yoga of Power do a masterful job of radically demythologizing yoga. -- Joseph S. Alter, author of <i>Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Science and Philosophy</i> The Yoga of Power is a marvelous piece of scholarship that argues that yoga is more than either a school of philosophy or a regime of psychophysical practice, but rather rewrites the history of yoga as an enduring tradition of political thought and practice in India. Combining textual reading, archival work, and ethnographic study, the book intervenes in the disciplines of history and area studies by demonstrating the epistemological gains of breaching the temporal boundaries between the precolonial, the colonial, and the postcolonial, urging us to rethink what we imagine today as politics and the political. -- Prathama Banerjee, author of <i>Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South</i>


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Sunila S. Kalé is a professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her books include Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development (2014). Christian Lee Novetzke is a professor in the Jackson School of International Studies and the Comparative History of Ideas Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. His books include The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India (Columbia, 2016).

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