Intellectual History or Philosophical History? The Indian Century as Global Miniature Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age , by Shruti Kapila, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, 328pp, $37.00/£30.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691195223

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 See, for instance, Maia Ramnath, Haj to Utopia; Faisal Devji, The Impossible Indian; Kama Maclean, A Revolutionary History of Interwar India.2 See, for instance, Martin Bayly, Lineages of Indian International Relations, 819–35; Vineet Thakur, Liberal, Liminal and Lost, 232–58; Vineet Thakur and Alexander E. Davis, A Communal Affair over International Affairs, 689–705; Carolien Stolte and Harald Fisher-Tiné, Imagining Asia in India, 65–92; Raphaëlle Khan, Disrupting the Empire and Forging IR, 836–55.3 Alain Badiou, The Century, 102.4 Ibid., 8–9.5 Ibid., 100–101.6 Ibid., 5–6.7 Ibid., 9–10.8 On Gandhi’s anti-statist political thinking, see, for instance, Karuna Mantena, On Gandhi’s Critique of the State, 535–63.9 See, for instance, Manu Bhagavan, The Peacemakers; Raphaëlle Khan, Sovereignty After the Empire and the Search for a New Order, 1141–74.10 Frederick Cooper, Citizenship between Empire and Nation; Gary Wilder, Freedom Time.11 Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India; Ramachandra Guha, India after Gandhi; C.A. Bayly, Recovering Liberties.12 See Christophe Jaffrelot, Modi’s India.13 Tanika Sarkar, History as Patriotism, 171–81.14 Frederick Cooper, Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History, 401.