Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age

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A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern India Violent Fraternity in the Indian Age is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India. Taking readers from the dawn of the twentieth century to the independence of India and formation of Pakistan in 1947, the book is a testament to the pow

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"An innovative and original study of Indian political thought showing that the threat of violence between Hindus and Muslims has long shaped Indian political thinking, even before independence and partition."---Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
"[Violent Fraternity] embodies the fresh and bold scholarship that is redrawing the intellectual map of the world."---Pankaj Mishra, New York Times Book Review
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[An] ambitious reconstruction of the thinking that drove Indias political elite in the half century before independence in 1947.

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Shruti Kapila is Associate Professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She is the editor of An Intellectual History for India and the coeditor of Political Thought in Action: The Bhagavad Gita and Modern India. Her writing has appeared in leading academic journals such as Past and Present and Modern Intellectual History and in international publications such as the Financial Times, India Today, and Prospect. Twitter @shrutikapila