"Subjects of the law may admittedly have to accept that a final decision might turn out to be binding even though wrong. And in this limited sense, Schmitt is right to appeal to Hobbes's dictum that it is authority and not truth that makes the law. (PT 33
"Madhusree Mukerjee geht dokumentarisch und analytisch vor. Sie zeigt, wie Churchill die eigenwillige »britische Kronkolonie« bekämpfte: indem er Indien währungspolitisch systematisch pauperisierte (britische Kriegskosten inflationär auf Indien abwälzte),
Micahel Collins: "[...]for Tagore the nation was distinctively modern and exclusively Western. Its ‘mechanical purpose’ implicates an instrumental rationality in its political and organisational form and the purposeful element of the nation is reified in
Praful Bidwai Interviews Perry Anderson His latest book, The Indian Ideology, just published by the Three Essays Collective, is a scathing critique of the dominant celebratory discourse of the Idea of India, or the lionising of the democratic stability, multi-cultural unity and impartial secularity of the Indian state as a miracle. His three recent essays on the subject in the London Review of Books have already generated considerable debate.
S. Anand on Ashis Nandy's recent statements in Outlook India, Feb 11, 2013: "In the US today, even Republicans would not say something so derogatory of all Hispanics, Blacks or First Nation peoples."
"In this respect [caste], Ambedkar and Gandhi were on the same footing--if anything Ambedkar’s argumentation as seen in The Annihilation of Caste is far more sophisticated. However, the crucial difference between them was their treatment of the idea of equality. Both figures held that human beings were essentially unequal. Ambedkar, however, insisted that this ontological inequity was not a sufficient justification for the construction of an unequal social system. Gandhi, on the other hand, felt that this ontological inequality warranted social divisions for the sake of social stability. Thus, Gandhi sought to protect caste and Ambedkar set out to annihilate it."
SA Aiyar "Swaminomics" The Times of India , 09 February 2014 "Gandhi wanted the central government to have very limited powers. He wanted villages to rule themselves the traditional way, through sarpanches and panchas (village chiefs and councillors). But Ambedkar declared that villages were cesspools of cruelty, caste prejudice and communalism. No human rights would be safe if left to dominant groups that had oppressed minorities for centuries in the most inhuman fashion. "
by Nathan Schneider December 2, 2013 refers to" a new paper published in the journal Societies Without Borders in September by Sean Chabot and Majid Sharifi. It’s called “The Violence of Nonviolence: Problematizing Nonviolent Resistance in Iran and Egypt.” "
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