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A review of The Making of Laloo Yadav: The Unmaking of Bihar, by Sandarshan Thakur, is presented.

Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault on governmental rationalities, particularly those related to the government of the state, the governance of modern societies is explored. A slightly different view of the relationship between liberalism & society as "a complex & independent reality that has its own laws & mechanisms of disturbance" is advanced, suggesting that analysis of the government of the state be extended to a broader examination of the "government of populations," ie, government between rather than within states, better befitting the modern geopolitical situation. The view of modern society as consisting of one or more societies is explored & related to the liberal rationality of government, then employed in a fresh analysis of Foucault's liberal critique of the police. Immanuel Kant's vision of what constitutes a "constitutional republic" is examined as an elaboration of a "contractarian political fantasy" regarding the society of modern states; its limitations are also illuminated, arguing that its view of the order imposed by government within the state & the disorder resulting from lack of government is too simplistic. The dependence of government within a state on the conduct of forces external to the state is described & implications for citizenship & democracy are considered, along with extensions to concerns about the international protection of human rights & noninterference. 43 References. K. Hyatt Stewart