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Nizar Ahmed

Rethinking State and People

The notion of state is internally vague. This vagueness is carried over to political theory which reproduces it. To treat state as an entity that can be talked about is to participate in a mythology which reproduces the myth of state that enmeshes people in a misrecognized relation of power. A statist view is one [...]

Bobby Kunhu

Smaller States, Larger Democracies

The discourse around the formation of Telengana state has been largely by opinions that try to quantify or assess what would be qualitatively good or bad for Telengana and its people specifically and for the Andhra Pradesh state generally. I really fail to understand this debate if one recognizes the [...]

Nizar Ahmed

Life after secularism

Secular India (Namita Devidayal, water colour)

Life

By life I mean what life forms are predicated on. A life form is a complex of practices, values, reasons, and beliefs etc. that picks out a group as a people, or more or less characterizes a group as a people. [...]

Anant Maringanti

Rethinking exclusion

It has become something of a commonsense among South Asian progressives that caste, religion and gender (increasingly sexuality) are the main axes along which exclusion and marginalization occurs in India. We have been so engrossed in this idea that we have largely ignored the actual processes of exclusion that have [...]

Himanshu Damle

On Political Cognition

This note describes several lines of investigation into political cognition.

The theoretical origins of information processing in politics comes largely from philosophers and psychologists studying other issues and from fields outside the realm of psychology. We assume that the task of translating available information into set of focused, legally consistent beliefs, [...]

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