ICAS:MP – Cambridge University Press Series

Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Cambridge University Press

This series seeks to publish new books that both expand and de-centre current perspectives on politics and the ‘political’ in the contemporary world. It examines, from a wide array of disciplinary and methodological approaches, how the ‘political’ has been conceptualized, articulated and transformed in specific arenas of contestation during the ‘long twentieth century’. Though primarily located in India and the Global South, the series seeks to interrogate and contribute to wider debates about global processes and politics. It is in this sense that the series is imagined as one that is regionally focused but globally engaged, providing a context for interrogations of universalized theories of self, society and politics.

Series Editors

• Prof. Tanweer Fazal, University of Hyderabad, Telangana
• Prof. Shail Mayaram, formerly at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
• Prof. Samita Sen, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
• Prof. Awadhendra Sharan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
• Prof. Sanjay Srivastava, British Academy Global Professor, SOAS University of London
• Prof. Ravi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
• Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer, University of Göttingen, Germany

Published Titles

1. Berber Bevernage, Eline Mestdagh, Walderez Ramalho and marie-Gabrielle Verbergt: Claiming the People’s Past (2024)
2. Salma Siddique: Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960 (2022)
3. Rajan Krishnan, Ravi Sriramachandran and VMS Subagunarajan: Rule of the Commoner: DMK and Formations of the Political in Tamil Nadu, 1949-1967 (2022)
4. Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay: Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property and Political Culture in Calcutta in the Twentieth Century (2022)
5. Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar: Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism in India (2022)
6. Thomas Blom Hansen and Srirupa Roy (eds): Saffron Republic: Hindu Nationalism and State Power in India (2022)
7. Sushmita Pati: Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi (2022)
8. Sebastian Schwecke: Debt, Trust, and Reputation. Extra-legal Finance in Northern India (2022)
9. Shail Mayaram: The Secret Life of anOther Indian Nationalism: Transitions from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana (2022)