As published in the Volume 2(2)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract The state’s dominance as a political form obscures alternatives that reject centralised authority. Addressing that assumption, this paper examines stateless societies as distinct modes of governance which resist the rationality of modern states. Contrary to Eurocentric assumptions that render them primitive or transitory, these societies cultivate egalitarian, non-coercive structures that decentralise power through...