AN AGENDA FOR POLITICAL THEORY IN INDIA 51 poststructuralist philosophies and approaches. But a political theory which rejects the possibility of universality and truth can only diminish itself. Traditionally the concept of universality has served as a standard by which to judge ideas and concepts, a goal rather than a characteristic of particular theories. It is the tension between what exists and what is to be pursued, which has provided dynamism to political theory and which should be the characteristic of a vibrant Indian Political Theory. NOTES AND REFERENCES 1. Max Morkheimer, Traditional and Critical Theory', Critical Sociology, Connerton ed., Penguin, Britain, 1976, p. 232. 2. Rajani Kothari, Survey of Research in Political Science, Vol. 4, Political Thought (ICSSR, 1986). Also Manoranjan Mohanty, Report on ^Political Theory presented to ICSSR, 1988. 3. See International Social Science Journal, 1987. 4. For instance, Raghavendra Rao, 'A Political Theory of Indian Political Theory', Teaching Politics, Vol. XII, NO. 4, 1986, and V.R. Mehta, Ideology, Modernisation and Politics (Delhi: Manohar, 1983) 5. Peter Laslett, ed.. Political and Social Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 1989) 6. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Oxford: OUP, 1972). 7. Charls Taylor, 'Neutrality in Political Science', The Philosophy of Social Explanation, Ryan ed. (London: OUP, 1973), pp. 139-170. 8. William Connolly, Terms of Political Discourse (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1983). 9. Development and Change, Vol. 23, No. 3, July 1992. 10. Michel Foucault, The Final Foucault, James Bemauer and D. Rasmussen, eds. (Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1988). 11. P. Chatterji, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (Delhi: OUP, 1988), Aijaz Ahmed, 'Orientalism and After', E.P.W., July 25, 1992, Svati Joshi, Rethinking English (Delhi :Trianaka, 1991), and many others. Sudipto Kaviraj, On the Construction of Colonial Power: Structure, Discourse, Hegemony' (N.M.M.L. Occasional Papers, No. XXXV). 12. Ashish Nandy, 'The Sociology of Sati; Indian Express, Oct 5, 1987. 13. Uma Chakravarti, et al., 'Khurja Riots, 1990-1991: Understanding the Conjuncture', E.P.W., May 2, 1992, Gyanendra Pandey, 'In defence of the fragment', E.P.W., Annual, March, 1991, S. Copal ed., 'Anatomy of a Confrontation' (India: Penguin Books, 1991), and numerous other studies in this genre. 14. Sudipto Kaviraj, Imaginary History, N.M.M.L. Occasional Papers, Second Series, No. XVIII. 15. See M. Mohanty, n. 2. 16. Examples of interest in such issues may be found in A.R. Desai, Violation of Democratic Rights in India (Bombay: Popular Prakasan, 1986), Aswini Ray, 'Civil Rights Movement and Social Struggle in India', E.P.W., 12 July, 1986, Gail Omvedt, Land, Caste and Politics in Indian States, (Teaching Politics and Authors Guild: 1982), B.T. Ranadive, 'Marxism and the Nationality Question in India', The Marxist, Vol. 1, No. 2, Oct/Dec, 1983, Randhir Singh, 'Terrorism, State Terrorism and Democratic Rights', E.P.W., Feb 8, 1992, Theorising Communalism: A fragmentary note in the Marxist mode', E.P.W., Vol. XXXII,