Aditya Nigam

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, Politics, Alumnus

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I am a political theorist formerly with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. I have had a longstanding involvement with the Left movement and am interested in the experience of capitalism and the political in the Global South. Currently my interests relate to climate change, environmental crisis and philosophical issues in degrowth.
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After Utopia

Marxisme, modernité et politique d'émancipation en inde

Actuel Marx, 2013

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Rumour of Maoism

The Maoist Movement in India, 2020

Capital, time and difference

Gandhi - The 'Angel of History7: Reading Hind Swaraj Today

Decolonizing Theory

Marxism and The Postcolonial World

Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 2, 1999

Democracy, State and Capital: The 'Unthought' of 20th Century Marxism

Economic and Political Weekly, Dec 19, 2009

Anti-Corruption Movement and the Left

Economic and Political Weekly, Sep 10, 2011

Afro-Asian solidarity and the “capital” question: looking beyond the last frontier

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2016

ABSTRACT The argument in this paper is a continuation of an argument that I have been making for ... more ABSTRACT The argument in this paper is a continuation of an argument that I have been making for some time, which questions the universal history of capital, crucial to which are assumptions regarding its historical necessity. Capital is not only understood to be a historically unavoidable condition but one that has already colonized the world such that there is no outside to it. In developing my argument regarding the “outside” to capital, where I find Kalyan Sanyal's work very useful and significant, I claim that much of the problem with theorizing capital today has to do not with the beast itself but with the inherited paraphernalia of western theory and philosophy. After a survey of the passive revolution debate in India, which I read as a sign of the actual impossibility of “capitalist” development across different parts of the world, I move on to argue that both “capital/ism” and the “logic of capital” (accumulation) are misleading concepts concealing an essential “emptiness,” which I work out through the idea of “dependent arising” taken from Buddhist philosophy.

Empire, Nation and Minority Cultures: The Postnational Moment

Economic and Political Weekly, Mar 7, 2009

A Text without Author

Economic and Political Weekly, May 22, 2004

A Text without Author: Locating Constituent Assembly as Event

Economic and Political Weekly, 2004

Constitutions are rarely about change; they are codes that legitimise the new dispensation that a... more

Genealogies of Globalisation: Unpacking the 'Universal' History of Capital

Economic and Political Weekly, Mar 24, 2007

Capitalism, Non-capital and Workers' Rights

Economic and Political Weekly, Aug 16, 2012

Looking towards the Future

Donnelly/How to Succeed at E-Learning, 2012

Student Movement and Education Policy

Social Scientist, 1986

AT FIRST sight, the post-independence student movement in India presents an extremely fragmented ... more

The Insurrection of Little Selves

Peter Gottschalk, Beyond Hindu and Muslim—Multiple Identity Narratives from Village India :Beyond Hindu and Muslim—Multiple Identity Narratives from Village India

History of Religions, 2003

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A Novel Reading of the Arab Spring

Community Development Journal, 2013