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This book is a compilation, the complete works of Ashis Nandy. As Nandy himself writes in his Prologue, it is an attempt to scan his scattered lectures, interviews and writings, including essays, columns and papers for newspapers and journals, thr...

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This essay sketches the psychological biography of the modern nation state in India in the early years of the nationalist movement. Most nationalist leaders in India, adopting uncritically the western ideology of nationalism, were then convinced t...

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This volume brings together three significant works of Ashis Nandy - Alternative Sciences, The Illegitimacy of Nationalism, and The Savage Freud. It is essential reading for social and political scientists, and all those interested in the complexi...

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This book narrates how Ayodhya's inhabitants experienced the events that led up to and followed the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the end-product of a century's effort to convert Hindus into a 'proper' modern nation. Woven into the narrative is...

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This book tells the story of India's ambivalent affair with the modern city through the myth of the journey between the village and the city, and the changes that myth has undergone. The book is divided into four sections. The first deals with the...

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Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the British, says Ashis Nandy, defying history, in this delightful book. He treats us to meditations on the history, philosophy, and results of the game, as well as intriguing psychological prof...

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This book is a biographical sketch of the lives of two celebrated Indian scientists, J.C. Bose, the plant physiologist, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the greatest untrained mathematical geniuses the world has ever known. Nandy discusses the exte...

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This collection of Ashis Nandy's essays is on the concept of the nation-state and its fate in India where he examines its social, political, and cultural aspects and covers communalism, secularism, terrorism, the development agenda, among other is...

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This collection of essays invites the readers to revisit Ashis Nandy's thinking and to explore with new insights the open-ended adventure defining his life and works. These essays continue to challenge us, forcing us to ask ourselves new questions...

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This volume brings together three significant works of Ashis Nandy - Alternative Sciences, The Illegitimacy of Nationalism, and The Savage Freud. It is essential reading for social and political scientists, and all those interested in the complexi...

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What is the nation? What is the idea of India? Whose India is it, anyway? This inaugural volume in the series titled Rethinking India aims to kickstart a national dialogue on the key questions of our times. It brings together India's foremost...

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A book about the convenient myopia which, through the ages, has allowed - and continues to allow - the West to see other peoples as subjects, infidels, even savages. This is an account of Eurocentricity in its most potent forms.

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This book deals with an important and too-often ignored area of cultural studies. To examine the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema is to study Indian modernity at its very rawest. The questions and perspectives this book presents provoke ...

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In this collection of essays, Ashis Nandy uses the metaphor of the future -- imagined utopias, conceptions of cultural possibilities, social critiques of things to come - to redefine the present. Nandy's effort is to demonstrate that, in a world i...

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"Time Treks" uses the metaphor of the future - imagined utopias, conceptions of cultural possibilities, social critiques of things to come - and redefines the present. In a world increasingly dominated by a narrow range of ideologies, so...

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Este clasico de la teoria critica poscolonial analiza la conocida como "e;segunda colonizacion"e; y las resistencias frente a ella. Desafiando los estudios convencionales sobre dominacion colonial, el libro examina el proceso ideologico cu...

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