Indian Political Theory Laying the Groundwork for Svaraj

includes index and biblioraphy

1. What is political Theory Meant to Do ? The thick and thin of Svaraj .................9 Political Theory and comparative political Theory ................22 What is Indian Political Theory ..........35 2. The inadequacy of Transatlantic Political Theory ....................53 Theories of Our Condition: Habermas and the post-secular Turn .........55 Theories of our oppression : Zizek and the Critique of Human Rights ...........81 Theories of our Liberation : Rawls, Sen , and the Romance of Global Justice ...........101 An Unkindness of Theories : Transatlantic Marxism , Post-structuralism, and Postcolonial Ethnographies ...............124 3. Preconditions for Svaraj ..............147 Tradition, Hybridity, Equality: Tarrying with the Negative ...............149 Gandhi and Ambedkar.........168 Dalit svaraj: The precondition for authentic Indian political theory .............192