Federalism
At a time when the Indian Constitution is under sustained strain, this incisive monograph turns to one of its most foundational ideas: federalism.


At a time when the Indian Constitution is under sustained strain, this incisive monograph turns to one of its most foundational ideas: federalism.



Languages of Freedom asks a simple but urgent question: what does it mean to be free—and why does freedom so often slip through our hands? In these wide-ranging and incisive essays, political scientist Neera Chandhoke moves between political theory, mid-20th-century Hindi cinema and Urdu poetry of the Progressive Writers’ Movement to trace how freedom has been imagined, claimed and constrained in modern India.



At a time when the Indian Constitution is under sustained strain, this incisive monograph turns to one of its most foundational ideas: federalism.



Languages of Freedom asks a simple but urgent question: what does it mean to be free—and why does freedom so often slip through our hands? In these wide-ranging and incisive essays, political scientist Neera Chandhoke moves between political theory, mid-20th-century Hindi cinema and Urdu poetry of the Progressive Writers’ Movement to trace how freedom has been imagined, claimed and constrained in modern India.
