Wait ing for the People reconstructs how the debates over peopleho od defined Indian anticolonial thought\, and a bold new framework for theor izing the global career of democracy. This book is the first account of Ind ian answers to the question of peoplehood in political theory. From Surendr anath Banerjea and Radhakamal Mukerjee to Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Ne hru\, Indian political thinkers passionately explored the fraught theoretic al space between sovereignty and government. In different ways\, Indian ant icolonial thinkers worked to address the developmental assumptions built in to the modern problem of peoplehood\, scrutinizing contemporary European de finitions of “the people” and the assumption that a unified peoplehood was a prerequisite for self-government. Nazmul Sultan demonstrates how the anti colonial reckoning with the ideal of popular sovereignty fostered novel ins ights into the globalization of democracy and ultimately drove India’s twen tieth-century political transformation.
Nazmul Sultan is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politi cal Science at the UBC. His research interests include the history of polit ical thought\, empire and anticolonial thought\, popular sovereignty\, and ideas of the global. His next book-length project seeks to theorize the glo bal condition of modern political thought. Through a reconsideration of the global histories of a key set of political ideas (equality\, patriotism\, colonialism)\, the book will explore the formation of the modern account of the globe: one\, interdependent\, dynamically integrated\, and yet stubbor nly hierarchical. Articles related to the project have appeared in the American Political Science Review and Review of Politics
< p>Participants are asked to read the Introduction andThe conversa tion will begin with brief remarks from Professor Sultan about the motivati on behind the book. Participants will be invited to share their own reflect ions\, thoughts\, and connections made with the assigned chapters. Light lu nch will be provided. All are welcome\; no RSVP required.
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