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A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern
India Violent Fraternity is a major history of the political
thought that laid the foundations of modern India. Taking readers
from the dawn of the twentieth century to the independence of India
and formation of Pakistan in 1947, the book is a testament to the
power of ideas to drive historical transformation. Shruti Kapila
sheds new light on leading figures such as M. K. Gandhi, Muhammad
Iqbal, B. R. Ambedkar, and Vinayak Savarkar, the founder of
Hindutva, showing how they were innovative political thinkers as
well as influential political actors. She also examines
lesser-known figures who contributed to the making of a new canon
of political thought, such as B. G. Tilak, considered by Lenin to
be the "fountainhead of revolution in Asia," and Sardar Patel,
India's first deputy prime minister. Kapila argues that it was in
India that modern political languages were remade through a
revolution that defied fidelity to any exclusive ideology. The book
shows how the foundational questions of politics were addressed in
the shadow of imperialism to create both a sovereign India and the
world's first avowedly Muslim nation, Pakistan. Fraternity was lost
only to be found again in violence as the Indian age signaled the
emergence of intimate enmity. A compelling work of scholarship,
Violent Fraternity demonstrates why India, with its breathtaking
scale and diversity, redefined the nature of political violence for
the modern global era.
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