South Asian Governmentalities

This volume studies the reception of the works of the acclaimed post-colonial philosopher Michel Foucault by South Asian scholars.

Acknowledgements; 1. Introducing South Asian governmentalities Deana Heath and Stephen Legg; 2. Governmentality in the East Partha Chatterjee; 3. Pastoral care, the reconstitution of pastoral power and the creation of disobedient subjects under colonialism Indrani Chatterjee; 4. The abiding binary: the social and the political in modern India Prathama Banerjee; 5. Colonial and nationalist truth regimes: empire, Europe and the latter Foucault Stephen Legg; 6. Law as economy/economy as governmentality: convention, corporation, currency Ritu Birla; 7. Do elephants have souls? Animal subjectivities and colonial encounters Jonathan Saha; 8. Plastic history, caste and the government of things in modern India Sara Hodges; 9. Changing the subject: from feminist governmentality to technologies of the (feminist) self Srila Roy; 10. The tortured body: the irrevocable tension between sovereign and biopower in colonial Indian technologies of Rule Deana Heath; 11. The subject in question Gerry Kearns; Bibliography; Index.