ABSTRACT

This book explores the future of liberalism in India. It moves away from traditional approaches and draws upon resources from other disciplines – those subjects which some might think don’t strictly fall under political science or theory – like anthropology, literature, philosophy — to critically engage with the condition of late capitalist modernity in India.

The essays in the volume trace liberalism's journey through modern Indian history to give us a new standpoint to understand current debates and also point to some internal contradictions of Indian liberalism.

The volume will be of importance to scholars and researchers of political science, especially political theory, and South Asian studies.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Liberalism and Its Encounters in India

chapter Chapter 2|21 pages

Infinite Praise

Beyond the Constituted Finitude of Life and Liberty

chapter Chapter 4|23 pages

Freedom, Self and Truth

The ‘Liberty’ in Liberalism

chapter Chapter 5|17 pages

Across Identities

Ethnicity and Nationalism in the United Bengal Movement of 1946

chapter Chapter 6|14 pages

Liberal Secularity and the Indian State

Notes on the Sabrimala Judgement

chapter Chapter 7|15 pages

Secularism and Its Theological Interior

An Anthropologist's Demand on Faith