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100			_aChakrabarty, Dipesh
245			_a"In the name of politics": sovereignty, democracy, and the multitude in India
260			_c2005
300			_ap.3293-301.
362			_a23 Jul
520			_aThe histories of sovereignty and democracy in India have taken a route different from the trajectory adopted by some western countries. In India, colonial sovereignty was often reduced to domination, yet `internal wars' waged on the basis of religious, caste or even linguistic divisions, continued. Post-colonial India remains thus, a social body perpetually traversed by relations of war. As this article argues, neither colonial rule, nationalism nor even democracy in India has seen the production of a sovereignty necessary for the construction of a `society' amenable to disciplinary power and its politics. Indian democracy thus furnishes an interesting case where the political task of creating the typically modern mix of `sovereignty' (rights) and disciplinary domination arises not before but after the coming of universal adult franchise and a democratic polity. - Reproduced.
650			_aIndia - Politics and government
650			_aPolitics and government
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a66420
999			_c66420 _d66420