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  • THE MARGINAL NATION
    RANABIR SAMADDAR
    The Marginal Nation analyses the realities of transborder migration in the South Asia region going beyond the domains of economics and demography. It provides an in-depth look into the historical, cultural and geographic dimensions of migration across the India–Bangladesh border that challenges fixed definitions of borders, nations and identities. Drawing from extensive fieldwo...

    $1,160.00

  • ALTERNATIVE FUTURES AND THE PRESENT
    RANABIR SAMADDAR
    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, indicatin...

    $1,160.00

  • CONFLICT, POWER, AND THE LANDSCAPE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM
    GILLES TARABOUT / RANABIR SAMADDAR
    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 o...

    $640.00

  • POLITICAL TRANSITION AND DEVELOPMENT IMPERATIVES IN INDIA
    RANABIR SAMADDAR / SUHIT K. SEN
    This volume explores the transition from colonial to constitutional rule in India, and the various configurations of power and legitimacies that emerged from it. It focuses on the developmental structures and paradigms that provided the circumstances for this transition, and the establishment of the post-colonial state. Different articles interrogate the idea of liberal constit...

    $1,420.00

  • THE POSTCOLONIAL AGE OF MIGRATION
    RANABIR SAMADDAR
    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 no...

    $1,160.00

  • FROM POPULAR MOVEMENTS TO REBELLION
    RANABIR SAMADDAR
    From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade argues that without an understanding of the popular sources of the rebellion of that time, the age of the Naxalite revolt will remain beyond our understanding. Many of the chapters of the book bring out for the first time unknown peasant heroes and heroines of that era, analyses the nature of the urban revolt, and shows h...

    $1,200.00

  • THE POLITICS OF DIALOGUE
    RANABIR SAMADDAR
    Offering a detailed analysis of post-colonial South Asia, The Politics of Dialogue discusses the creation and impact of borders and the pervasive tension between the new nations. Neither all-out war nor complete peace, this fragile condition makes political leaders and strategists feel claustrophobic - a war produces an end result but peace allows the rulers to carry out their ...

    $1,320.00

  • NEO-LIBERAL STRATEGIES OF GOVERNING INDIA
    RANABIR SAMADDAR
    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 studie...

    $1,320.00

  • IDEAS AND FRAMEWORKS OF GOVERNING INDIA
    RANABIR SAMADDAR
    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 studie...

    $920.00

  • BEYOND KOLKATA
    ISHITA DEY / RANABIR SAMADDAR / SUHIT K. SEN
    This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state government in the mid-1990s, in pandering to the vision of urban planners of creating a hi-tech town beyond an unruly, crowded Kolkata, ...

    $1,420.00

  • GOVERNMENT OF PEACE
    RANABIR SAMADDAR
    Government of Peace addresses a major question in world politics today: how does post-colonial democracy produce a form of governance that copes with conflicts, insurgencies, revolts, and acute dissents? The contributors view social governance as a crucial component in answering this question and their narratives of governance aim to show how certain appropriate governing modes...

    $1,240.00

  • NEW SUBJECTS AND NEW GOVERNANCE IN INDIA
    RANABIR SAMADDAR
    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,...

    $1,420.00

  • PARTITIONS
    STEFANO BIANCHINI / SANJAY CHATURVEDI / RADA IVEKOVIC / RANABIR SAMADDAR
    The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the reunification of Germany, the continuing feud between two Koreas, the Irish peace process, the case of Israel/Palestine and the lingering division of Cyprus, have together given rise to a huge body of literature. However, studies of partitions have usually focused on individual cases....

    $1,320.00

  • THE CITY AS THE SOUTHERN QUESTION
    RANABIR SAMADDAR
    This innovative edited volume places global urbanism in the context of the phenomenal growth of cities of the South, investigating their colonial contentiousness and asking how their history plays out in the twenty-first-century phenomenon of urbanisation. Inspired by Antonio Gramsci’s reflections on the problem of the South, it shows that the question of southern urbanism is a...

    $1,240.00