Sanjeev Routray. The Right to be Counted. The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi . [South Asia in Motion.] Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 2022. xviii, 347 pp. Ill. $90.00. (Paper, E-book: $30.00.)

Making U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia: Regional Imperatives and the Imperial Presidency. Edited by Lloyd I. Rudolph, Susanne H. Rudolph. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. 448 pp., $24.95 paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-22000-4). South Asia's Cold War: Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective. By Rajesh M. Basrur. New York: Routledge, 2008. 172 pp., $39.95 paperback (ISBN 978-0-415-39194-8). South Asia's Weak States: Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament. Edited by Thaza Varkey Paul. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010. 352 pp., $27.95 paperback (ISBN 978-0-804-76221-2). The reviewed books address South Asia's predicaments pertaining to the region's state capacity, nuclear security, and foreign policy relations with the United States. South Asia's Weak States, edited by T.V. Paul, explains the multifaceted insecurities of South Asia by identifying the presence of weak states and weak cooperative interstate norms in the region. South Asia's Cold War, by drawing on the general characteristics of the US–USSR, US–China, USSR–China, and US–North Korea Cold Wars, studies the Cold War in South Asia (between India and Pakistan) and the possibilities of thawing this war. Making US Foreign Policy Towards South Asia remains an analysis of US foreign policy toward South Asia since the Nixon era with emphasis on the Bush era after 9/11. Barring some excessively descriptive chapters (in Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolf), the three books constitute a valuable source of information for scholars, graduate students, and policy practitioners interested in International Relations (IR)/Security, South Asian nuclear security, and issues of US–South Asian foreign policymaking. Rudolph and Rudolph's book is particularly helpful for policy practitioners. Nonetheless, these books (with the exception of some chapters that are mentioned below), and to some extent Basrur's book, explain issues of South Asian security from a conventional/empirical framework of politics. Thus, they preclude the interrogation of how interpretive factors/processes such as the power of discourse, ideology, articulation of identities, international hierarchy, and voices/concerns of the South Asian actors that are vital (when considering politics of the postcolonial world) may implicate South Asian security, state capacities, and US–South Asian foreign policy affairs. Below, I comparatively delineate the core theses, theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and the contributions of these three scholarships. However, considering South Asia's postcolonial location, its colonial experience, and its presence in a hierarchical world of IR, suggest that a more critical line of analysis, …

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Vilém Flusser, “Celebration,” in Writings, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 166. 2. Vilém Flusser, “Celebration,” in Writings, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 167. 3. Vilém Flusser, “Celebration,” in Writings, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 168. 4. Vilém Flusser, “Celebration,” in Writings, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 167. 5. Vilém Flusser, “Celebration,” in Writings, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 168. 6. Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” in The Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), 112. 7. Flusser, “Celebration,” 169. 8. Flusser, “Celebration,” 169, 165. 9. Flusser, “Celebration,”, 169. 10. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 60. 11. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 62. 12. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 65. 13. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 60. 14. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 86. 15. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 87. 16. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 82. 17. Flusser, “Celebration,” 171. 18. Flusser, “Celebration,” 171. 19. Flusser, “Celebration,” 171. 20. Flusser, “Celebration,” 171. 21. Flusser himself knew a thing or two about exile, having fled the Nazis to Brazil—a productive trauma on which he reflected a great deal in his writings. 22. This no doubt self-indulgent nostalgia was obscenely in evidence in the belated sequel to Tron—grandiosely named Tron Legacy—pitching itself as a second coming, of sorts. Additional informationNotes on contributorsDominic PettmanDominic Pettman is Chair of Culture and Media, Eugene Lang College, as well as Associate Professor of Liberal Studies at The New School. He has held previous positions at the University of Melbourne, the University of Geneva, and the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion (State University of New York Press, 2002), Avoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object (with Justin Clemens, Amsterdam University Press, 2004), Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age (Fordham University Press, 2006), and Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

INSIDE NUCLEAR SOUTH ASIA Scott D. Sagan, editor Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 28ipp, US $27.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8047-6239-7Before India and Pakistan reached nuclear threshold in 1998, two countries were widely considered to be locked in long-term but lowintensity confrontation. But their acquisition of nuclear weapons left international community's nonproliferation initiatives - especially nonproliferation and comprehensive test ban treaties - in tatters. In 12 years since, scholars have given much attention to Indian and Pakistani nuclear doctrine, command and control, and governmental stability.The central claim of Inside Nuclear South Asia is that nuclear pessimists are right. In contributors' view, it is fallacious to claim that more nuclear weapons are better, that increases stability, or that nuclear powers will never go to war with each other. Though several accounts on nuclear south Asia have appeared recently, Sagan writes that this book is unique because it both new insights into domestic politics and organizational interests behind specific nuclear policy choices in South Asia and sustained critique of excessively narrow realist views of nuclear proliferation (3). It lives up to this claim by providing counterarguments to optimist school - whose leading proponent is Kenneth Waltz - and by offering focused analysis ofthe domestic political reasons why two countries sought nuclear weapons in first place. Moreover, it offers convincing answer to most salient question in Indo- Pakistani relations: [w]hy did nuclear not lead to nuclear peace in South Asia? (4).The book's six chapters are divided into two parts, first on causes and second on consequences of of nuclear weapons in subcontinent. Kanti Bajpai provides brilliant explanation of how domestic politics influenced India's nuclear tests. In criticizing BJP government's nuclear policy, he argues that [tjhose who thought that tests on both sides of border would produce regional stability were mistaken (47). He concludes that policy of next BJP government will lead to still more proliferation, in large part for domestic reasons. By championing nuclear weapons, for example, party can burnish its Hindu nationalist credentials and substantially expand its electoral support.Karthika Sasikumar and Christopher Way provide useful interpretation of south Asia's nuclear growth by testing theories against three possible determinants: technological, external, and domestic factors. Their statistical analysis of Indo- Pakistani rivalry offers three critical insights. First, liberalization theory, which claims that trade openness discourages states' nuclear ambitions, is incorrect. Instead of limiting proliferation, India's and Pakistan's economic liberalization and elevated growth rates made it worse. Second, they argue that if a nuclear armed great power had offered security guarantee to two countries, might have been curtailed (85). Third, contrary to Bajpai's argument, impact of domestic politics on is negative because the degree of democracy, democratic transition, and political instability are all inconsequential in influencing (94). The United States should therefore work to resolve conflict over Kashmir, they conclude, because dispute over region is primary cause of Indo- Pakistani rivalry. …

Reviewed by: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia by Bernard Bate Sharika Thiranagama Bernard Bate. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia. E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth, and Constantine V. Nakassis, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 264 pp. In 2016, when Bernard Bate passed away, he left behind a collection of texts, some chapters in finished form, some in draft, and a series of notes and fragments. Assembling these pieces, this pathbreaking book is a labor of love. It represents Barney's labor over decades of love for his work and for the Tamil language. It is also a labor of love by E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth, and Constantine V. Nakassis, who have painstakingly put together this manuscript in such seamless and brilliant fashion that it has the edge of a single author. Barney was a friend as well as an exemplary anthropologist full of life. This work is a testament to the best of what community, friendship, and love can look like. Bate's previous book, Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic (2009), examined oratory within new forms of democratic praxis in South India. In Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern, Bate explores the formative pre-history of this oratory. The South Indian state of Tamil Nadu (renamed from Madras State in 1969) was formed out of political mobilizations centered around linguistic nationalism and Tamilness. For anyone who knows Tamil Nadu, the place of oration within political movements is, as A.R. Venkatachalapathy explains in his foreword to the book, undeniable. How did this communicative praxis of Tamil democracy arise? How did 20th century Tamil politics and identity become so invested in a naturalistic relationship between a vernacular Tamil and a Tamil "soul" and spirit, in what had been a profoundly heteroglossic pre-colonial South India? How did these changes relate to the Protestant homiletic sermon, a style of speech [End Page 725] propagated by Tamil missionaries? Barney's answers to these questions in this new book go to the historical heart of contemporary Tamil politics by emphasizing oration and speech as a fundamental political infrastructure of contemporary nationalism and politics. While some of the arguments in this book, such as the fashioned Tamil neo-classicism of contemporary Tamil politics (the "newness of the old" [Bate 2009:xv]), were central to Bate's first book, this second work introduces the Protestant homiletic sermon as a foundational rhetorical form—exploding many assumptions of contemporary Tamil scholarship. The role of print media—and Anderson's (1983) associated notion of print capitalism—in creating new kinds of national imaginaries, politics, and publics has, as Barney points out, been well explored. However, unlike print, the Platform—political speech—is, by virtue of its embodied sensuous form, difficult to capture in an archive, even as we know intuitively that the emotions and sentiments mobilized around speech are central to modern politics and nationalism. This book represents an effort to recover and locate political speech in specific modern forms of language that were simultaneously new and Tamil. Bate centers new forms of public speech and political practice through which politicians and orators mobilized new constituencies across class and caste into new populist and nationalist formations. There are multiple ancient Tamil genres and practices of speech, writing, performance, and theater across nearly 2,000-year-old written records. Bate argues, however, that no prior genre resembled the homiletic sermon, addressing an "undifferentiated mass of lower-status" (5), and that this uniquely new 19th century Protestant missionary form would become the heart of modern Tamil democratic praxis. To tell this story, Bate, unlike many scholars of South India, looks to both South India and northern Jaffna in Sri Lanka, understanding text, language, and tradition across the borders that contemporary scholarship still so faithfully follows. Tamil Souls "The Christians who wanted to capture souls for Jesus knew that their own texts must first have Tamil souls." (29) [End Page 726] Christian missionaries entered a South Indian and Sri Lankan (then Ceylon) world profoundly marked by multiple languages and heteroglossia that would only later be distinguished as 20th...

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Jacques Derrida, ‘I Have a Taste for the Secret’, in Jacques Derrida and Maurizio Ferraris, A Taste for the Secret (London: Polity Press, 2001). See pp. 50–1. 2. Jacques Derrida, ‘Punctuations: The Time of a Thesis’, in Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004), p.120. All further references will be included in the body of the text. 3. Jacques Derrida, ‘Countersignature’, Paragraph 27.2 (2004), pp. 7–42. See pp.17–19. 4. Jacques Derrida, ‘Negotiations’, in Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews 1971–2001 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), p.18. All further references will be included in the body of the text. 5. Jacques Derrida, ‘Who's Afraid of Philosophy?’, in Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004), p. 187. All further references will be included in the body of the text. 6. Jacques Derrida, ‘Where a Teaching Body Begins and How It Ends’, in Who's Afraid of Philosophy: Right to Philosophy 1 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), p. 90. All further references will be included in the body of the text. 7. Jacques Derrida, ‘Privilege: Justificatory Title and Introductory Remarks’, in Who's Afraid of Philosophy: Right to Philosophy 1, p. 10. 8. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of Its Pupils’, Diacritics 13.1 (1983), pp. 3–20. 9. Jacques Derrida, ‘The University without Condition’, in Without Alibi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002). All further references will be included in the body of the text. 10. See Derrida, ‘Negotiations’, p. 27. See also Derrida, ‘Declarations of Independence’, in Negotiations, pp. 46–54.