'The Hunger of the Republic: Our Present in Retrospect (Volume I in the India Since the '90s series) is a text and visual assemblage. Across the 1990s and early 2000s, key concepts of democracy — of welfare and justice, of people and citizen-subjects — got mutated into unrecognizable avatars. It was a change being recorded in real time by artists, academics and diverse cultural producers. Brought together and viewed in hindsight, their work appears unexpectedly prescient. Documentary and art images, maps and letters combine with essays on politics, economics, cultural studies and aesthetics to produce a retrospective account for how our present time came to be.' — from the back cover
India Since the 90s #1
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2021
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Introduction
- Ashish RAJADHYAKSHASECTION I: NARRATIVES OF STATE
1 Democracy: In Search of a Theory (2005)
- Rajni KOTHARI2 The Imaginary Institution of India (1992)
- Sudipta KAVIRAJ3 In Defence of the Fragment: Writing about Hindu-Muslim Riots in India (1991)
- Gyanendra PANDEY4 The Chundur Carnage (1991)
- Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee5 The Republic of Hunger (2004)
- Utsa PATNAIK6 India and the Colonial Mode of Production (1975)
- Hamza ALAVI7 Rich Peasant, Poor Peasant (1988)
- K. BALAGOPAL8 Contemporary Cultural Practice: Some Polemical Categories (1989)
- Geeta KAPURSECTION II: DISAPPEARANCES
9 Beyond the Nationalist Panopticon: The Experience of Cyberpublics in India (1996)
- Ravi SUNDARAM10 The Republic of Babel: Language and Political Subjectivity in Free India (2011)
- Madhava PRASAD11 Void and Memory: Story of a Statue (2004)
- M S S PANDIAN12 Media Trials and Courtroom Tribulations: The Battle of Images, Words and Shadows in the 13 December Case (2005)
- Shuddhabrata SENGUPTA13 Unframed (1993)
- Jayant KAIKINI14 Hindu Death and Our Death (1996)
- Kancha ILAIAHSECTION III: SURFACE/DEPTH: MEANINGS OF THE HEROIC AND THE ORDINARY
15 Suffering, Legitimacy and Healing (1995)
- Veena DAS16 Being Their Target (2017)
- Teesta SETALVAD17 Interrogating the Thesis of 'Irrational Deification' (2008)
- Sharmila REGE19 Questions and Dialogue (1987)
- Anita DUBE
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