Indian Political Theory: Laying the Groundwork for Svaraj

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Cover Title Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Contents Introduction: time for a new Orientalism? PART I What is political theory meant to do? 1 The thick and thin of svaraj 2 Political theory and comparative political theory 3 What is Indian political theory? PART II The inadequacy of transatlantic political theory 4 Theories of ‘our’ condition: Habermas and the post-secular turn 5 Theories of ‘our’ oppression: Žižek and the critique of human rights 6 Theories of ‘our’ liberation: Rawls, Sen, and the romance of global justice 7 An unkindness of theories: transatlantic Marxism, post-structuralism,and postcolonial ethnographies PART III Preconditions for svaraj 8 Tradition, hybridity, equality: tarrying with the negative 9 Gandhi and Ambedkar 10 Dalit svaraj: the precondition for authentic Indian political theory Conclusion: toward a political theory of svaraj Index