'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

Alternative title

India Since the 90s #1

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Onsite

Location code
REF.RAA9
Language

English

Keywords
Publication/Creation date

2021

No of pages

406

ISBN / ISSN

9788194534815

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction

- Ashish RAJADHYAKSHA

SECTION I: NARRATIVES OF STATE

1 Democracy: In Search of a Theory (2005)

- Rajni KOTHARI

2 The Imaginary Institution of India (1992)

- Sudipta KAVIRAJ

3 In Defence of the Fragment: Writing about Hindu-Muslim Riots in India (1991)

- Gyanendra PANDEY

4 The Chundur Carnage (1991)

- Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee

5 The Republic of Hunger (2004)

- Utsa PATNAIK

6 India and the Colonial Mode of Production (1975)

- Hamza ALAVI

7 Rich Peasant, Poor Peasant (1988)

- K. BALAGOPAL

8 Contemporary Cultural Practice: Some Polemical Categories (1989)

- Geeta KAPUR

SECTION II: DISAPPEARANCES

 9 Beyond the Nationalist Panopticon: The Experience of Cyberpublics in India (1996)

- Ravi SUNDARAM

10 The Republic of Babel: Language and Political Subjectivity in Free India (2011)

- Madhava PRASAD

11 Void and Memory: Story of a Statue (2004)

- M S S PANDIAN

12 Media Trials and Courtroom Tribulations: The Battle of Images, Words and Shadows in the 13 December Case (2005)

- Shuddhabrata SENGUPTA

13 Unframed (1993)

- Jayant KAIKINI

14 Hindu Death and Our Death (1996)

- Kancha ILAIAH

SECTION III: SURFACE/DEPTH: MEANINGS OF THE HEROIC AND THE ORDINARY

15 Suffering, Legitimacy and Healing (1995)

- Veena DAS

16 Being Their Target (2017)

- Teesta SETALVAD

17 Interrogating the Thesis of 'Irrational Deification' (2008)

- Sharmila REGE

18 Violence (2013)

- Sunil MOHAN, Rumi HARISH

19 Questions and Dialogue (1987)

- Anita DUBE

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