Publisher's Synopsis
Sudipta Kaviraj has long been recognized as among India s most thoughtful and wide-ranging political thinkers and analysts, one of the subtlest and most learned writers on Indian politics. Ironically, this has remained something of a state secret because Kaviraj s writings are scattered and not easy to access as a connected body. So the present volume like its predecessor The Imaginary Institution of India fills a vital gap in South Asian political thought.