The Scandal of the State

"Utterly specific to postcolonial India and its feminist debates, this book is also a significant contribution to general feminist theory and to the fraught question of the relationship of the postcolonial state to the 'international civil society.' Rajeswari Sunder Rajan uses 'high theory' occasionally, creatively, critically. All feminists (and, indeed, antifeminists) should read this book, if only to discover the one moment in this sober, meticulously researched, analytical text when political passion breaks through to the vision of a chilling dystopia."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of" A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present"

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Reader in English and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford.