Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India and its companion volume Neoliberal Strategies of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and the critical question: how is a postcolonial democracy governed? Further, they attempt to understand why the process of governing a postcolonial democracy, particularly in the neoliberal age, should be studied as the central question within the history of postcolonial democracy. The volumes offer hitherto unexplored analyses of governance political and ideological aspects along with technological characteristics in a historical framework.This volume discusses:ideas and issues at the core of governance in postcolonial Indiaconstitution, statemaking and government formationthe asymmetrical nature of the anticolonial foundations of governance In breaking new ground in the study of what constitutes the political subject, these volumes will be indispensable to scholars, researchers and students of politics, public administration, development studies, South Asian studies and modern India.