Humanities & Social Sciences
January 2021
The Hunger of the Republic
Our Present in Retrospect
by Ashish Rajadhyaksha
The Hunger of the Republic: Our Present in Retrospect is the first of a series of volumes that turn back to India’srecent history to produce a retrospective account of how ourpresent got shaped. A return to the last three decades, and to the mutations caused by globalization to concepts such as democracy, welfare and justice, indeed the very idea of thepeople as citizen-subjects, produce a new staging ground forthe apparently unprecedented nature of the contemporarymoment. Key essays on politics, economics, cultural studies and aesthetics appear alongside works of art, documentary film, photography, maps, letters and legal documents.
