El trabajo de Sunil Khilnani profundiza en la historia intelectual y el pensamiento político, con un enfoque particular en la India moderna y la teoría democrática en relación con las experiencias no occidentales. Examina críticamente la política de la India contemporánea y explora el pensamiento estratégico para definir su posición global. Sus intereses de investigación se encuentran en la intersección de estos campos, ofreciendo comentarios perspicaces sobre cuestiones cruciales de la política y la sociedad modernas. Khilnani es un colaborador habitual en medios indios e internacionales, aportando una perspectiva distintiva moldeada por su extensa erudición.
Recapturing the human dimension of how the world's largest democracy came to be, this book explores the lives of 50 Indians, from the spiritualist Buddha to the capitalist Dhirubhai Ambani - lives that light up India's rich, varied past and its continuous ferment of ideas.
Civil Society is one of the most used--and abused--concepts in current political thinking. Fifteen leading scholars clarify the theoretical meanings of the concept as well as consider the different historical contexts in which it has been used outside the West. The volume is divided into two the first section analyzes the meaning of civil society in different theoretical traditions of Western philosophy. In the second section, contributors consider the theoretical and practical contexts in which this idea has been invoked in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Historical analysis explores the country's energy and unpredictibility in democracy, voting patterns, economic development, city and village cultures, and political identity