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The Hunger of the Republic: Our Present in Retrospect is the first of a series of volumes that turn back to India’s recent history to produce a retrospective account of how our present got shaped. A return to the last three decades, and to the mutations caused by globalization to concepts such as democracy, welfare, and justice, indeed the very idea of the people as citizen-subjects, produce a new staging ground for the apparently unprecedented nature of the contemporary moment. Key essays on politics, economics, cultural studies, and aesthetics appear alongside works of art, documentary film, photography, maps, letters, and legal documents.
Price: $52.00
Pages: 428
Publisher: Tulika Books
Imprint: Tulika Books
Series: India Since the 90s
Publication Date:
15 February 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9788194534815
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
HISTORY / Asia / South / General
This is a rich and well-curated selection of analyses of Indian democracy’s radical transformations since the 1980s—of value as both an unorthodox collection and as an archive of Indian political thought in a transformative set of decades.
Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a film historian and an occasional art curator. He has authored several books such as Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency (2009) and the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (with Paul Willemen) (1994). Among his curatorial projects are (with Geeta Kapur) Bombay-Mumbai 1992-2001 (Century City, Tate Modern, 2001) and Tah-Satah: A Very Deep Surface (Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, 2017).