"Political Theory And South Asian Counter-Narratives | Asian Studies

This book evaluates the promise of human progress and secularism in grand political narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries comparing counter-narratives of South Asia within the context of a fast-changing twenty-first century. The book embraces a broad range of sources and theoretical approaches that include political philosophy film and ideological discourse analysis. In the twenty-first century global inequality and significant growth of religious and majoritarian nationalisms have been appended with a protracted economic slowdown and recession in many countries. Examining what went wrong in terms of secularism and distributive justice in India this book critiques the Euro-American visions of democracy global capitalism and their so-called universality. As an alternative it proposes a progressive politics of radical democracy for the Indian people. Reconsidering alternatives to capitalism western secularism and the radical possibilities of Islamism Political Theory and South Asian Counter-Narratives will appeal to students and scholars of political theory international relations global history and South Asian politics.|Political Theory and South Asian Counter-Narratives | Asian Studies