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This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers. Through engagement with selected modern thinkers, texts, and events, it imagines a different future from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that emerge from the present and which shape contemporary radical thinking. An invitation to imagine a possible future marked with alternative possibilities of conducting struggles, and living through contentions and social restructuring, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social and political theory, political philosophy, colonialism and postcolonialism, and historical materialism.

This book critically examines the question of migration that appears at the intersection of global neo-liberal transformation, postcolonial politics, and economy. It analyses the specific ways in which colonial relations are produced and reproduced in global migratory flows and their consequences for labour, human rights, and social justice. The postcolonial age of migration not only indicates a geopolitical and geo-economic division of the globe between countries of the North and those of the South marked by massive and mixed population flows from the latter to the former, but also the production of these relations within and among the countries of the North. The book discusses issues such as transborder flows among countries of the South; migratory movements of the internally displaced; growing statelessness leading to forced migration; border violence; refugees of partitions; customary and local practices of care and protection; population policies and migration management (both emigration and immigration); the protracted nature of displacement; labour flows and immigrant labour; and the relationships between globalisation, nationalism, citizenship, and migration in postcolonial regions. It also traces colonial and postcolonial histories of migration and justice to bear on the present understanding of local experiences of migration as well as global social transformations while highlighting the limits of the fundamental tenets of humanitarianism (protection, assistance, security, responsibility), which impact the political and economic rights of vast sections of moving populations. Topical and an important intervention in contemporary global migration and refugee studies, the book offers new sources, interpretations, and analyses in understanding postcolonial migration. It will be useful to scholars and researchers of migration studies, refugee studies, border studies, political studies, political sociology, international relations, human rights and law, human geography, international politics, and political economy. It will also interest policymakers, legal practitioners, nongovernmental organisations, and activists.

From popular movements to rebellion : introducing the Naxalite decade / Ranabir Samaddar -- The refugee movement as a founding moment of popular movements in post-independent West Bengal / Paula Banerjee and Sucharita Sengupta -- Anti-tram fare rise movement and teachers' movement in Calcutta, 1953-54 / Answesha Sengupta -- The defining moments of left popular politics in West Bengal : the food movements of 1959 and 1966 / Sibaji Pratim Basu -- The artisans of revolt : peasant activists of Naxalbari / translation by Purna Banerjee -- Repertoires and politics in the time of Naxalbari / Ranabir Samaddar -- The prairie fire spreads I : Medinipur / Anwesha Sengupta -- The prairie fire spreads II : Birbhum / Atig Ghosh -- Occupy College Street : notes from the sixties / Ranabir Samaddar -- The culture battle / Subhoranjan Dasgupta -- Spring thunder and the dialectic of critique / Ranabir Samaddar -- The Naxalite decade comes to a close, but land question persists / Atig Ghosh -- Bihar in 1974 : possibilities and limits of a popular movement / Mithilesh Kumar -- Bihar in the sixties and seventies : the enigmatic figure of Karpoori Thakur / Manish Kumar Jha -- Reports : rural poor and the armed rebels of Bihar, 1960-70s -- Introducing the anthology / Sumanta Banerjee -- The palpable reality of fiction / Subhransu Maitra -- Ani = Ani / by Ashim Ray ; translated by Subhransu Maitra -- Midnight knock = Kapatey karaghat / Tapabijoy Ghosh ; translated by Subhransu Maitra -- Corpse worship = Shabasadhana / Saibal Mitra ; translated by Subhransu Maitra -- Human gems = Manushratan / Debesh Roy ; translated by Subhransu Maitra -- Homecoming = Ghare phera / Ashim Ray ; translated by Subhransu Maitra -- Release them = Mukti chai / Tababijoy Ghosh ; translated by Subhransu Maitra -- Reportage

Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India and its companion volume Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a post-colonial democracy governed? Further, they attempt to understand why the process of governing a post-colonial democracy, particularly in the neo-liberal age, should be studied as the central question within the history of post-colonial democracy. The volumes offer hitherto unexplored analyses of governance -- political and ideological aspects along with technological characteristics -- in a historical framework. This volume discusses: ideas and issues at the core of governance in post-colonial India constitution, state-making and government formation the asymmetrical nature of the anti-colonial foundations of governance In breaking new ground in the study of what constitutes the political subject, these volumes will be indispensable to scholars, researchers and students of politics, public administration, development studies, South Asian studies and modern India.

This important and topical volume is composed around the debt and migration crisis in Europe in 2015 (known as the Greece crisis), and written almost concurrently as the two crises developed in quick succession. The central argument here is that Europe's present crisis suggests a post-colonial bind, or to put in stronger terms, a post-colonial destiny of Europe. The European situation bears remarkable similarity with the post-colonial condition elsewhere in the world and suggests a strong bond between Europe's present situation and the post-colonial bind in which much of the world finds itself. The purpose of this volume is to examine in the light of 21st century capitalism notions such as debt, crisis, rupture, dialogue, mobilization, neo-liberalism, war and migration, and the old, never to be settled, question of ideology. The volume ends with reflections on Europe's migration crisis, and reinforces the point that a critical post-colonial sense of history, accumulation, globalization, and the resilience of the nation form will help us reflect on the present European crisis, and draw appropriate lessons.

Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India" and its companion volume "Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India" tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a post-colonial democracy governed? Further, they attempt to understand why the process of governing a post-colonial democracy, particularly in the neo-liberal age, should be studied as the central question within the history of post-colonial democracy. The volumes offer hitherto unexplored analyses of governance - political and ideological aspects along with technological characteristics - in a historical framework. This volume discusses: * a contemporary history of democracy - ways of governing, resistance and their engagement * political economy, development and neo-liberal governance * governance as a strategy of accommodating claims and facilitating accumulation In breaking new ground in the study of what constitutes the political subject, these volumes will be indispensable to scholars, researchers and students of politics, public administration, development studies, South Asian studies and modern India

The Manifold Meaning of Territoriality in Nationalism -- What Was Asia to the Asians? -- The Birth of a Nation -- Promises of Revolution -- The Dynamics of Passive Revolution -- The World of the Edges -- Legality, Illegality, and Reasons of State -- Cartographic Representations and Anxieties -- Shefali -- The Ineluctable Logic of Geopolitics -- The Autonomous Spaces within the Nation

This work is on the political subject, the conditions of its emergence, and the theoretical implications of this emergence particularly the implications for our history. It seeks to change the way in which we understand our modern political history and the way in which it inquires into life, truth, and collective existence

This volume tells us that a critical inquiry into the idea of autonomy suggests that the politics of the future will be the politics of autonomies: an engagement that combines notions like self-government, women`s autonomy, devolution of power, the rights of minorities, greater popular access to resources, and legal pluralism, and where different autonomies must learn to negotiate and co-exist. Viewing democratic theory through the lens of autonomy, the contributors:. - argue that autonomy has to be an essential ingredient in the building of post-colonial democracies, not merely a residual mea

The exciting new Series-South Asian Peace Studies-has been conceived to showcase significant writings on peace studies from and about the region. The emphasis will be on essays, which demonstrate the importance of changing direction in various frameworks-from conflict management to peace, from national security to human security, from revenge to reconciliation, and from rights to justice. This, the inaugural volume in the Series introduces the concept, scope, and main concerns of peace studies. The 19 essays are grouped in three broad sections. The first discusses definitions of peace studies

This volume analyses India's reasonably good record of providing protection and hospitality to refugees, while pointing out the contradictions in the relation between these positive aspects and the manner in which state power has been exercised in post-colonial India. In examining the varied encounters between the state and refugees, the contributors demonstrate that India's story of providing care is simultaneously one of limiting care. It reveals the power of the state to decide whom to extend hospitality to and whom to deny it to. Thus, the issue of affording asylum becomes one of exercisin

The book seeks to critically examine the implication of a constitution of law for a political society. It presents a collection of essays that seek to investigate how power acts on power, how limits produce excess, how separation of powers produces the union of powers (sanctified by the very constitution that had guaranteed the division in the first place), and how the theory of separation is, at the same time, a myth and a reality. At the backdrop of the book, of course, is the theory that every good constitution rigorously separates the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary from one another to guarantee the independence of each of these powers, such that this separation results in life, liberty, and security. If a constitution, however, symbolises and produces power, precisely because it separates one site of power from another, it follows that it is power itself that is the limit of power. Constitutionalism as a political culture of laws, therefore, must explain the dynamics of power.The book addresses both constitutions and the societies in which they emerge. Many of the essays in this collection show how institutional practices originating from a legal text create a matrix of power that owes its life, neither to a contract between men, nor between the state and men, nor even between the society and men, but rather to relations established, organized, and formalized by laws. The collection is significant because it gives colonial and post-colonial experiences a justified place in studies of law and constitutionalism, for it shows that while Montesquieu, Kant, and Burke each in their own way were promoting the spirit of laws, a more significant history of law-making was being enacted in order to defend a particular rule, and a particular type of government on another side of the world. Based on comparative studies in several countries across three continents, the book centrally deals with issues of constitutionalism, politica

This book maps the convergence of governance and connectivity within Asia established through the spatial dynamics of trade, capital, conflict, borders and mobility. It situates Indian trade and governance policies within a broader Asian and global context. Focussing on India's North-East, in particular on India's Look and Act East Policy, the volume underscores how logistical governance in the region can bring economic and political transformations. It explores the projected development of the North-East into a gateway of transformative cultural interaction among people, just as the Silk Road became a conduit for Buddhism to travel along with musical instruments and tea. Comprehensive and topical, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of political studies, international relations, governance studies, development studies, international trade and economics and for think tanks working on South and Southeast Asia.

"This volume looks at the ways in which governance in the exercise of its strategies also acts as a process of production of subjects. It argues that governance is not a one-sided affair starting and ending with those who rule and govern, producing fiats, decrees, and diktats, but a productive process -- one that produces subjects of governance who in turn respond to the process, and make the field of governance a contentious one. Against the backdrop of the first transition of democracy in India from its origin in a colonial polity to the first phase of its independent life after the promulgation of the Indian Constitution in 1950, this volume explores the second transition towards developmental democracy, examining the interrelations between globalisation, development and structures of governance. The volume suggests that while there is need to reflect on the governance of transition, it is important to question how democracy negotiates this transition."--Publisher's website

Introduction / Ranabir Samaddar and Suhit K. Sen -- Two constitutional tasks : setting up the Indian state and the Indian government / Ranabir Samaddar -- The Nehruvian state, developmental imagination, nationalism and the government / Benjamin Zachariah -- The political constitution of India : party and government, 1946-57 / Suhit K. Sen -- Imaginations and manifestos of the political parties on ideals of developmental governance / Ashutosh Kumar -- Who will be able to access the provisions of liberty? : ability, disability, and the interrogation of norms / Kalpana Kannabiran -- Whose security, whose development? : lessons from campaigns against female infanticide in Tamil Nadu / Swarna Rajagopalan -- Rules of governance in developing rural India / Ratan Khasnabis.