Through a sophisticated‎,‎ robust and wide ranging analysis of democratic movements‎,‎ Chandhoke urges us to rethink the debates on civil society‎,‎ the state and violence in the global south‎.‎ This is an important‎,‎ thought‎-provoking and challenging book that will influence the thinking of all of us who are interested in questions of political and social justice‎.‎ Shirin M Rai‎,‎ Professor of Politics and International Studies‎,‎ University of Warwick‎,‎ UK Neera Chandhoke‎'‎s Democracy and Revolutionary Politics provides a much‎-needed‎,‎ careful and imaginative analysis of the ambivalent concept of revolutionary violence‎.‎ Both with respect to its explanatory and its normative power‎,‎ combining social context and general principles‎,‎ it is an exemplary work ‎- political theory at its best‎.‎ Rainer Forst‎,‎ Goethe University Frankfurt‎,‎ Germany