The event will begin with a short presentation on the book\, fol lowed by a reception with drinks and appetizers.
RSVP BY FEBRUARY 5\, 2024
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Waiting for the People is the first account of Indian an swers to the question of peoplehood in political theory. From Surendranath Banerjea and Radhakamal Mukerjee to Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru\, Indian political thinkers passionately explored the fraught theoretical spa ce between sovereignty and government.
In different ways\, Indian anticolonial thinkers worked to address the developmental assumptions built into the modern problem of peoplehood\, sc rutinizing contemporary European definitions of “the people” and the assump tion that a unified peoplehood was a prerequisite for self-government. Nazm ul Sultan demonstrates how the anticolonial reckoning with the ideal of pop ular sovereignty fostered novel insights into the globalization of democrac y and ultimately drove India’s twentieth-century political transformation.< /p>
Waiting for the People exca vates\, at once\, the alternative forms and trajectories proposed for India ’s path to popular sovereignty and the intellectual choices that laid the f oundation for postcolonial democracy. In so doing\, it uncovers largely unh eralded Indian contributions to democratic theory at large. India’s effort to reconfigure the relationship between popular sovereignty and self-govern ment proves a key event in the global history of political thought\, one fr om which a great deal remains to be learned.
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