Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 254 g
And the Fate of Dissent in the Tropic
Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 254 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-569333-1
Verlag: Hurst & Co.
history. The essays, mostly inquire into the culture of the Indian state, suggest tangentially the directions in which to move for a cultural and psychological biography of the state. The idea of a moderate state, which was of a state that was neither over-burdened with the responsibility of
engineering all aspects of its citizens lives nor of seeking to extend the market and global capital into every corner of every society, was not unknown to all societies at all times. While such moderate states may not have been great successes and may not have survived, neither can the modern nation-state system claim to be the greatest success story of all times. The question of its survival as an arrangement of political communities, too, remains to be finally decided. The essays in this
book explore the vicissitudes of the idea of the modern state under different cultural and psychological conditions.