Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution
On Caste and Politics
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About this book
In their brave and challenging book, grounded in political science and the Continental philosophical tradition, Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan engage with the resurgence of upper-caste supremacism in India and its justification via the legacy of ‘the Aryan doctrine’ and Hindu nationalism.
Their essays were written from 2016 to 2023, when India’s democratic institutions were subverted and caste-based oppression overflowed into public space—killing and menacing the lower castes of all religions, minorities, women, students and the media.
This book chronicles the ascending oppression of democracy in India, a veritable biography of authoritarianism. Dwivedi and Mohan reject simplistic accounts of India’s politics as the opposition between ‘Hindu majoritarian nationalism’ and ‘the religious minorities’, or between ‘Hindu fundamentalism’ and ‘religious pluralism’. They propose instead a genuinely transformative account of Indian politics, grounded in political philosophy and in the lower- caste majority position.
What does revolution mean where the constitutional promise of equality is betrayed daily by the millennia- old inequality of caste? What does politics mean where religion serves as the justification for descent- based enslavement and indignity? Revolution has only one sense in India, the annihilation of caste; and ‘citizen’ has only one sense, the people of the state shedding caste and racism.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Philosophical Testimonies
- Essays
- 1. The Pathology of a Ceremonial Society
- 2. Hidden by Hindu
- 3. The ‘Aryan Doctrine’ and the De-post-colonial
- 4. Never was a Man Treated as a Mind
- 5. The Macabre Measure of Dalit-Bahujan Mobilizations
- 6. The Meaning of Crimes Against Muslims in India
- 7. Who Gets to Kill Whom in the Union of India?
- 8. Courage to Begin
- 9. Assemblies of Freedom: Testing the Constitution
- 10. Looming Objects and the Ancestral Model of Historiography
- 11. Democracy and Revolution
- 12. The Futility of ‘Resistance’, the Necessity of Revolution
- 13. From Protesting the CAA to Embracing the Dalit-Bahujan Position on Citizenship
- 14. The Current Protests in India are a Training Ground for a Break With the Past
- 15. The Obscenity of Truth: Arrest the Anti-Fascist!
- 16. Freedom First: Manifesto
- 17. The Terror That Is Man
- 18. The Hoax of the Cave
- 19. Sex and Post-colonial Family Values
- 20. Our Wandering Senses: … For the Journalists of the World
- 21. ‘He Has Lit a Funeral Pyre in Everyone’s Home’
- 22. A Great Intolerance
- Interviews
- 23. ‘In India, religious minorities are persecuted to hide the fact that the real majority are the lower castes’
- 24. The Winter of Absolute Zero
- 25. Cargo Cult Democracy
- Friendships and Solidarities
- 26. The Compassionate Revolution of Saint Stan Swamy (1937–2021)
- 27. Disha Ravi, Greta Thunberg and the Existential Rebellion: The World Needs to Save Itself
- 28. On Teesta Setalvad
- 29. Romila Thapar: The Modern Among Historians
- 30. Intellectual Insurgency: For Mahesh Raut
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary of Concepts
- Index
- Back Cover