Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India

Preface
1. Political Imaginaries: A programme for Twentieth Century Political History, Manu Goswami and Mrinalini Sinha (New York University, USA and University of Michigan, USA)
Genealogies of the Political
2. The Political in Question: Anatomy of a People's Politics, Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan, USA)
3. Mass Satyagraha and the Problem of Collective Power, Karuna Mantena (Columbia University, USA)
4. Conspicuous Communism: Rethinking Early Communism in Late Imperial India, Manu Goswami (New York University, USA)
5. National Wealth or National Poverty? The Politics of Measurement in Late Colonial India, Eleanor Newbigin (SOAS University of London, UK)
6. Law and the Political Imaginary in Mid-Twentieth Century Southern India, Kalyani Ramnath (Princeton University, USA)
7. Remembering the Emergency and the Question of Politics, Mary John (Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi, India)
Recalling Democracy
8. Radicalizing Democracies in India: Three Political Imaginaries, Partha Chatterjee (Columbia University, USA)
9. Institutionalizing Democratic Uncertainties: 'Election Time' in the Life of Indian Democracy, Anupama Roy & Ujjwal Kumar Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
10. Voting and the Visual: Electoral Symbols, Legal Discourse, & the Sovereign People, David Gilmartin (North Carolina State University, USA)
11. Representations of Electoral Politics: Notes on the Conceptual Power of the 'Vote Bank', Satish Deshpande (Delhi University, India)
12. Dispossession and Democracy: The Land Acquisition Act and the Future of India's Land Wars, Michael Levien (John Hopkins University, USA)
13. Democracy and the Moment of the Political, Aditya Nigam (Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi, India)
Afterword