Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India - 9780367177225

Taylor & Francis

This and its companion volume, Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India, tell the story of governance of Independent India. This volume studies: ideas and issues at the core of governance in post-colonial India; state formation and institutions; the asymmetrical nature of our anti-colonial foundations. > 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 > Acknowledgements. Preface. Part I. Ideals of Governance 1. Radicalism, Violence, and the Task of Governing 2. Crisis in the Nationalist Ideal of Self-Governance 3. The Power of the Aesthetic and a Different Style of Governing the Self 4. Another Idea of Democratic Governance 5. Citizen as a Problem Figure for Governance 6. The Rel.