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028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _bH-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _cBW/000228 _d23/07/2025
082			_a320.01 BAN
100			_aBanerjee, Prathama.
245			_aElementary aspects of the political _b: histories from the Global South. _c/ Prathama Banerjee.
260			_aHyderabad _b: Orient BlackSwan, _c, 2020.
300			_ax, 274p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b626.50
520			_aElementary aspects of the political studies the rise of modern politics in India between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries in the encounter between colonial modern, classical Indian, Indo-Persian and regional Vernacular ideas. It unpacks the modern conception of the political into four elementary aspects – self, action, idea and people – and shows how each element is structured around a conceptual instability, rendering its very elementary status questionable. Thus, the political self is split by the tension between renunciation and realpolitik; action is driven by the contradiction between labour and nishakama karma, each with its distinctive means-end configuration; the idea torn by its troubled relationships with the economic and the spiritual; and the people forever strung between being pure structure, namely the political party, and being pure fiction, namely the protagonist of theatre, novel and poetry. The book invites us to go beyond postcolonial and de colonial criticism and produce new political theory, inspired by ideas and experiences of the non-European world. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, philosophy, political Science, postcolonial theory, cultural and literary studies.
650			_aPolitical
650			_aHistory
650			_aHistory of the Global South
700			_aPrathama Banerjee
942			_cBOOK
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