In this path-breaking account, Nikita Sud critically re-examines the post-independence history and politics of Gujarat, one of India's leading federal units. To

When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to a

Approaches contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism.

An analysis of the use of media by political and religious interest groups in India

What is land and how is it made? In this path-breaking study of sites in western, eastern, and southern India, Nikita Sud argues that land is not simply the sol