Editor's Preface
Introduction: Charvak Speaks
1. All Nations are Modern
2. All National Borders are Accidental
3. Princes Have No Place in a Republic
4. India is Not a Hindu Rashtra
5. India is Not a Pluralist Secular Democracy
6. India is a People's Federation
7. People's Alliances Strengthen the Nation
8. The Nation Belongs to the Entire People
Index

Partha Chatterjee is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, New York, and Honorary Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His previous books include The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories and I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today.