Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 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 th…
"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…
"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…
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 pan…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Maps and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Where is Rajarhat? -- 2. Destruction of a World -- 3. Losers and Gainers -- 4. Urban Legends of Con…
