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FOREWORD Our฀Gandhi,฀Our฀Times Arjun฀Appadurai This remarkable special issue of Public Culture is the product of several years of fruitful dialogue among the editors, Ritu Birla, Faisal Devji, and the late Carol Breckenridge.

It thus exemplifies something of the spirit in which Public Culture was founded, less as an authoritative forum for the adjudication of intellectual taste than as a forum for debating emergent interpretations and the interpretation of emergence.

All three of the individuals whose conversations led to this set of essays are historians, and so are several of the authors of the individual essays collected here. In this regard, this special issue on Hind Swaraj is part of an evolving answer to a question with which the editors and editorial board of Public Culture have struggled from the very beginnings of the journal: did we care about history, or was the journal to be entirely about the sightings and sitings of the global present?

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