Sovereignty Before Law Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age , by Shruti Kapila, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, 328 pp., $37.00/£30.00, ISBN 9780691195223

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Granville Austin, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966).2 Madhav Khosla, India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020).3 Faisal Devji, “An Impossible Founding,” Global Intellectual History, doi:10.1080/23801883.2021.1962584.4 Shruti Kapila, “British Gave India ‘Freedom to Hate’. We are Staring at Partition Violence Again,” The Print, published on July 28, 2022, https://theprint.in/opinion/british-gave-india-freedom-to-hate-we-are-staring-at-partition-violence-again/1055774/, last accessed November 1, 2022.5 Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, trans. George Schwab (Chicago University Press, 2007).6 Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983).7 Alenka Zupančič, “Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself?!” Problemi International 3, no. 3 (2019): 89–108.8 Todd McGowan, “Subject of the Event, Subject of the Act: The Difference Between Badiou’s and Žižek’s Systems of Philosophy,” Subjectivity 3 (2010): 7–30. See also, Warren Breckman, Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy (Chapter 6) (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), 254–7.9 Slavoj Žižek, “Disputations: Who are You Calling Anti-Semitic?” The New Republic, January 7, 2009, https://newrepublic.com/article/62376/disputations-who-are-you-calling-anti-semitic, last accessed November 1, 2022; See also, Žižek, Violence: Six Sideways Reflection (London: Profile Books, 2008).10 Faisal Devji, The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptations of Violence (London: Hurst, 2012); and Ajay Skaria, Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).11 Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983).12 Samuel Moyn, “From Communist to Muslim: European Human Rights, The Cold War, and Religious Liberty,” The South Atlantic Quarterly 113, no. 1 (2014): 63–86.13 Todd McGowan, “The Psychosis of Freedom: Law in Modernity,” in Lacan on Psychosis, ed. Jon Mills and David L. Downing (London: Routledge, 2018), 47–76.