{"product_id":"9781911723233","title":"Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution : On Caste and Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 positionWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45470430232797,"sku":"9781911723233","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781911723233.jpg?v=1720185859","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781911723233","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}