Himadeep Muppidi is Betty G.C. Cartwright Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Vassar College, New York. He is the author of The Colonial Signs of International Relations, (2012), The Politics of the Global (2004) and co-editor (with Andrew Davison) of Europe and Its Boundaries: Words and Worlds,Within and Beyond (2009) and The World is My Home: A Hamid Dabashi Reader, 2011.

The work focuses on a subaltern local sovereignty movement called "Telangana" in India.

Fascinated by the social movement's international invisibility as well as the causes and conditions of its eruption around a city/region that has become a showcase of new capitalist development, Muppidi seeks to unpack this issue, showing that this invisibility is not just intrinsically puzzling, but also represents the operation of power on a global scale. Investigating the conditions of invisibility in this instance can therefore tell us something important about the way global power works to produce visibility and invisibility in the 21st century world.

Introduction, Chapter 1. Postcolonial Auditions, Chapter 2. Colonial Concerts, Chapter 3. Sentimental Economies, Chapter 4. Sibilant Hills, Chapter 5. Global Forgings