This project is a major international collaboration involving twenty-four scholars of Indian culture, politics and languages. Together, we are working to record and analyse the conceptual vocabulary of India’s political life across seventeen Indian languages. Our purpose is not only to capture the most significant features of political language use across the country, but also to build a theoretical vocabulary for analysing Indian politics not in the exogenous terms of Western Political Theory, but in its own terms – using concepts through which Indian political actors themselves conduct and reflect on their politics.