The Metamorphosis of Indian Political Thought: From Streets to Ivory Towers
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The Metamorphosis of Indian Political Thought: From Streets to Ivory Towers

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 03, 2024 13:51 IST - 5 MINS READ Yogendra Yadav took a dig at practitioners of modern political thought and theory in India by pronouncing an exaggerated judgement that political thinkers who, during the anticolonial movement, belonged to a tradition of thinking-in-action or thinking-in-politics have now disappeared from prominence. Despite conceding the existence of formidable names in the field of Indian political thought since Independence, Yadav’s complaint centres around the argument that political thinking has given way to a more academically constrained world and craft of political theory. Since India’s political thought uniquely arose from the real field of politics, our trajectory was shaped by an emergent, contestable, and fluid set of ideas that had a corresponding relationship with the shaping of our politics during colonial and postcolonial times. Once institutionalised, politics was reduced to ideological polemics and the lack of imaginative leaders ensured the death of political thinking in India’s mainstream parties.

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India Today  

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New Indian Express  

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The Hindu  

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Hindustan Times  

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News 18  

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Hindustan Times  

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Hindustan Times  

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The Hindu  

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Times of India  

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Live Mint  

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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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Business Standard  

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Firstpost  

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The Hindu  

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Firstpost  

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Al Jazeera  

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Firstpost  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Firstpost  

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Live Law  

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Political Line | India@75: state of democracy, the freebie debate, new Kashmir voters and more
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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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2 years, 6 months ago

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The Hindu  

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2 years, 6 months ago

How do we frame the battle for the ‘idea of India’?

The Hindu  

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Book Review: ‘Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics’ maps the Gujarat model of communalism
2 years, 7 months ago

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The Hindu  

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Rasheed Kidwai on the defining figures in Indian politics | On Books podcast
2 years, 8 months ago

Rasheed Kidwai on the defining figures in Indian politics | On Books podcast

The Hindu  

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2 years, 10 months ago

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Firstpost  

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Western narrative on Subhas Chandra Bose suffers from poor scholarship, revisionist history and rank hypocrisy
2 years, 11 months ago

Western narrative on Subhas Chandra Bose suffers from poor scholarship, revisionist history and rank hypocrisy

Firstpost  

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Shashi Tharoor writes: A struggle between two ideas of India
3 years, 4 months ago

Shashi Tharoor writes: A struggle between two ideas of India

The Hindu  

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‘What Do Indian Politicians Stand For?’ Tharoor On Jitin’s Exit
3 years, 7 months ago

‘What Do Indian Politicians Stand For?’ Tharoor On Jitin’s Exit

The Quint  

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4 years ago

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Live Mint  

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The Mahatma as an intercultural Indian
4 years, 3 months ago

The Mahatma as an intercultural Indian

The Hindu  

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How India’s historians have reflected on the country’s history, culture and heritage
4 years, 3 months ago

How India’s historians have reflected on the country’s history, culture and heritage

The Hindu  

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Post-nationalism and the notion of ‘ordinary’ person: How India shifted from a people-driven republic to a State-driven one
5 years ago

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Firstpost  

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5 years, 3 months ago

Gandhi’s legacy being ‘forgotten’ amid rise of far right in India

Al Jazeera  

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Opinion | What is this ‘idea of India’ Rahul Gandhi talks about?
5 years, 6 months ago

Opinion | What is this ‘idea of India’ Rahul Gandhi talks about?

Live Mint  

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India and the Indian: Inequitable majority-minority relations no longer a fringe phenomenon
5 years, 6 months ago

India and the Indian: Inequitable majority-minority relations no longer a fringe phenomenon

Firstpost  

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India and the Indian: Hindu nationalism is an inherently secular notion, not a theocratic concept, writes Sreemoy Talukdar
5 years, 6 months ago

India and the Indian: Hindu nationalism is an inherently secular notion, not a theocratic concept, writes Sreemoy Talukdar

Firstpost  

For Hindus, respect for different customs, faiths and religion is not a value to strive for. South Asia scholar Christophe Jaffrelot, in his book Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India, writes that India is moving towards an “ethnic democracy” where minorities must “accept a status as dominated, second-class citizens.” Referring to “Jewish dominance at the expense of Muslims”, …

India and the Indian: Western theories of nationhood don't capture country's complex realities, writes Samrat
5 years, 6 months ago

India and the Indian: Western theories of nationhood don't capture country's complex realities, writes Samrat

Firstpost  

The Indian of today includes the unknown woman from the uncontacted tribe of the Sentinelese in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands but it also includes the actress Kalki Koechlin, who is an Indian of French origin. A very basic definition of the nation, from the Oxford English Dictionary, is “A large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, …

Latest episode of ‘The Patriot Act’: Hasan Minhaj might be funny, but his act is shoddy, ill-researched and no guide to Indian politics
5 years, 9 months ago

Latest episode of ‘The Patriot Act’: Hasan Minhaj might be funny, but his act is shoddy, ill-researched and no guide to Indian politics

Op India  

For anybody moderately active on Twitter, it is hard for them to be not hit by the scores of rave reviews for Hasan Minhaj’s take on the Indian elections on his comedy series, The Patriot Act. Minhaj, an American whose family’s roots can be traced back to Uttar Pradesh, recently covered the Lok Sabha General Elections and received great appreciation …

New data-centric book on Indian politics claims BJP's rise in 2014 was culmination of long-standing ideological conflict
6 years ago

New data-centric book on Indian politics claims BJP's rise in 2014 was culmination of long-standing ideological conflict

Firstpost  

On the same day the Union cabinet approved 10 percent reservation for the economically backward sections among the upper castes, a panel of academics, politicians and data analysts launched a book titled Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India, deliberated — among other themes — on competing views on reservation and other factors that prove that ideologies have …

Patel statue and pillage of history
6 years, 1 month ago

Patel statue and pillage of history

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Hence, borrowing from Ernesto Laclau, the political theorist, it would not be wrong to characterise the terms “Hindu” and “Indian” as competing empty signifiers that could seek to produce nationalist ideology and the attendant populism. Hence, “Hindu” is more of a demographic locative appellate than a substantial attribute to a …

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