Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age by Kapila, Shruti
Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age by Kapila, Shruti

Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age

A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern India Violent Fraternity is a major history...
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Author: Shruti Kapila
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Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age by Kapila, Shruti

Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age

$119.38
Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age by Kapila, Shruti

Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age

$119.38
Author: Shruti Kapila
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern India

Violent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India. Taking readers from the dawn of the twentieth century to the independence of India and formation of Pakistan in 1947, the book is a testament to the power of ideas to drive historical transformation.

Shruti Kapila sheds new light on leading figures such as M. K. Gandhi, Muhammad Iqbal, B. R. Ambedkar, and Vinayak Savarkar, the founder of Hindutva, showing how they were innovative political thinkers as well as influential political actors. She also examines lesser-known figures who contributed to the making of a new canon of political thought, such as B. G. Tilak, considered by Lenin to be the "fountainhead of revolution in Asia," and Sardar Patel, India's first deputy prime minister. Kapila argues that it was in India that modern political languages were remade through a revolution that defied fidelity to any exclusive ideology. The book shows how the foundational questions of politics were addressed in the shadow of imperialism to create both a sovereign India and the world's first avowedly Muslim nation, Pakistan. Fraternity was lost only to be found again in violence as the Indian age signaled the emergence of intimate enmity.

A compelling work of scholarship, Violent Fraternity demonstrates why India, with its breathtaking scale and diversity, redefined the nature of political violence for the modern global era.

Author: Shruti Kapila
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 11/02/2021
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780691195223

About the Author
Shruti Kapila is University Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She is the editor of An Intellectual History for India and the coeditor of Political Thought in Action: The Bhagavad Gita and Modern India. Her writing has appeared in leading academic journals such as Past and Present and Modern Intellectual History and in international publications such as the Financial Times, India Today, and Prospect. Twitter @shrutikapila
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