Community and Identities: Contemporary Discourses on Culture and Politics in India

This important volume of original essays interrogates contemporary debates, popular as well as academic, on the place of communities and cultural identities in India's polity. In particular the contributors:

- analyse some of the emerging concerns in the social and political life of contemporary India

- deal with issues that are central to recent debates among social and political theorists, that is, community, identity, nation and civil society

- present fresh perspectives on these issues which are of interest to most developing societies