Mamdani, M: Define and Rule Native as Political Identity

Mamdani's book raises critical queries of colonial intervention in the lives of the colonized and how they are articulated in their theories to look upon themselves, and to take on their political and historical nativist subjectivities. Couched in the simple idiom of an astute political analyst the academic-cum-theoretician has produced a thesis of nativism and counter theory that is bound to lead on to new intellectual grounds and initiate newer debates.--Murali Sivaramakrishnan"The Hindu" (12/25/2012)