The modern state formation

India has witnessed a closure of the colonial era in its political history in 1950s. Around
this time, dthe society has underwent yet another change.

is A discursive practice in foucauldian terms is "the process through which [dominant] reality
comes into being". This is a very nebulous process, of course, and Foucault focuses on
questions of power. His notions of 'governmentality' and 'biopower', from his later work, are
helpful to understand this. Foucault does not only focus on formal and semi-formal
institutions like the state, the law, schools, clinics, prisons, the family, race, gender, and
sexuality, or not just on what the critical theorists and neo-marxists call the 'Culture Industry'
(like the media); he notoriously concerned with how power is inscribed on the body, at the
level of people's movement and perception of themselves. How does Power produce 'docile
bodies'? is another way in which he poses the question. Biopower in this sense refers to the
capillary living network (like veins or hairs) of how Power is propagated and inscribed on
docile bodies.