About the Author

Pradip Kumar Datta is the author of Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal (1999) and one of the co-authors of Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flag: A Critique of the Hindu Right (1993). He is also the editor of Rabindranath Tagore's 'Home and the World': A Critical Companion (2002). He teaches at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi.

Reviews

The essays in this collection are themselves heterogeneous, written at different points of time over the past two decades. But what binds them together is a 'commitment to heterogeneity', as opposed to homogeneous identities based on 'a binary opposition between the figures of self and the enemy.' -- J Sri Raman The Hindu