Includes bibliographical references.

A teach-in for a JNU spring / Janaki Nair -- Taking Indian nationalism seriously / Gopal Guru -- South Africa meets India / Ari Sitas -- The nation and its regions : how does it all add up? / G. Arunima -- Languages or mother tongues? India's linguistic diversity / Ayesha Kidwai -- [] -- Civil liberties and Indian nationalism / Mridula Mukherjee -- Gandhi's nation / Tanika Sarkar -- Nationalism : its power and limits / Achin Vanaik -- A gadfly jurisprudence of dissent / Lawrence Liang -- Tagore's take on 'the self-love of the nation' / Ranabir Chakravarti -- One hundred years of Tamil nationalism / A. Mangai -- [] -- On anti-national economics / Jayati Ghosh -- The past as seen in ideologies claiming to be nationalist / Romila Thapar -- Reinstituting the colonial history of medieval India / Harbans Mukhia -- India's uncivil wars : Tagore, Ghandi ... JNU ... and what's 'left' of the nation / Makarand R. Paranjape -- Two concepts of nationalism / Prahhat Patnaik -- [] -- The political culture of fascism / Jairus Banaji -- [] -- [] -- Crisis of Indian nationalism / B.S. Butola -- Nation-building in India and its contemporary challenges / Anand Kumar -- At the limits of postcolonial nationalism / Suvir Kaul.

"Who or what is 'anti-national'? The question was foregrounded in a series of unprecedenteed events that unfolded at Jawaharlal Nehru University from February 2016. Over the next few months, sections of the television, print and social media turned the country into a choric chamber of hate, riveting national attention. The proliferating 'charges' produced great political and intellectual disquiet in the JNU community of students and teachers. As a creative response, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association organized a teach-in for a month between 17 February and 17 March 2016. The lectures addressed the meanings, histories and experience of nationalism, and its unresolved dilemmas, in India and beyond. The teach-in lectures, which were initially intended for members of the JNU community, and delivered principally by JNU teachers, soon gained unanticipated audiences across India and in international forums. Reports and translations of the lectures, live streamed on YouTube, made for a reach that extended well beyond the 'Freedom Square', the area in front of JNU's administrative block, which became the space of this intellectual and political occupation. The book, therefore, is both an archive of that historic moment and a tribute to the effort that succeeded in refocusing national attention on the university as the space for sustaining serious, well-historicized and critical thought." -- Back cover.

Essays in English or Hindi.