The activist, the outsider, the devotee, the mob, antipolitical politics, bureaucratic
subservience, a docile media, and (let me add) bulldozer raj, beneficiary
citizenship-there have been many remarkable novelties in Indian politics in
recent years. This splendid volume examines these novelties in a deeply historical
and broadly global frame of the emergence of the people of India.

An indispensable guide to the political lexicon of the New India. The essays in
this imaginatively conceived volume offer compelling portraits of 'the people' at
the heart of a new democratic politics-from the kisan and the bhakt to the Aam
Aadmi and the Old Woman.

Ravinder Kaur is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies and Director of the Centre
of Global South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her core research focuses on the processes of capitalist transformations in 21st century India. This is the subject of her most
recent book, Brand New Nation . This work was selected as the 'Financial Times Best Book of the Year' in 2020 and longlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize in 2021. She is also the author of Since 1947: Partition Narratives among the Punjabi Migrants of Delhi.

Nayanika Mathur is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the South Asian Studies Programme at the University of Oxford.
She is the author of Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy, and the Developmental State in Himalayan India (2016) and Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene (2021). Educated at the Universities of Delhi and Cambridge, Nayanika is currently interested in
questions of method opened up by the climate crisis and her long-standing research in the Indian Himalayas.