Books in the India Since the 90s series

This is the first of a series of volumes that turn back to Indiäs recent history to produce a retrospective account of how our present was shaped. Key essays on politics, economics, cultural studies, and aesthetics appear alongside works of art, documentary film, photography, maps, letters, and legal documents.

In an atmosphere of growing authoritarianism, how can we draw attention to performance as a transaction of sensorial agency¿the right to be seen, heard, recognized¿the right to be palpable? Improvised Futures attempts to frame performance as doing, as fraught negotiations of agency and identity.