ISBN:
9780231158138
,
9780231158121
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 278 S.
,
Ill.
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Cultures of history
DDC:
325/.3
Keywords:
Democracy History
;
Democracy Philosophy
;
Postcolonialism
;
Indien
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Demokratie
;
Politik
;
Soziokultureller Wandel
Abstract:
Genealogies -- Popular reason -- Democracy
Description / Table of Contents:
Lineages of political society -- Five hundred years of fear and love -- The rule of subjects -- Two poets and death -- Tagore's non-nation -- The people in utopian and real time -- The sacred circulation of national images -- Critique of popular culture -- Community and capital -- Democracy and economic transformation -- Empire and nation today.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and index
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