A new publication entitled ‘The Writings of Rajni Kothari’ that brings together three of the activist-intellectual’s most well known books, has been recently published by Orient Blackswan. The books contained within the single volume are ‘Politics in India’, ‘Caste in Indian Politics’ and ‘Rethinking Democracy’.
In the foreword, political scientist and commentator Ashis Nandy writes, “...Rajni Kothari dared to be what he was — an Indian political scientist...in love with the idea and practice of democracy, who did not think democracy was an imported luxury but an indigenous cultural strand in continuity with an iniquitous, segmented but nonetheless highly plural society comfortable with radical diversity.”