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The article discusses the emergence of racial science in relation to India, and its reception and transformation within the British and Indian public sphere between 1770 and 1880.

An essay is presented on the role of violence in the political modernization of India. The author considers the nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak and his role in creating a vocabulary of violence and warfare in Indian nationalism. Emphasis is given to Tilak's idea of the de-historicized political subject and connections between Tilak's thought and the violence that accompanied the independence and partition of India.

The article introduces several reports published within the issue including one on the ethics of Indian activist Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, another on historicism as a form of violence, and one on the Bhagavad Gita's relationship to spiritualism in India.