Ashis Nandy

The Romance of the State

And the Fate of Dissent in the Tropic

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of Ashis Nandy's essays on the concept of the nation-state and its fate in India. He examines its social, political, and cultural aspects and covers communalism, secularism, terrorism, and the future of development in the area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 149mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780195693331
• ISBN-10: 0195693337
• Artikelnr.: 23540488

Autorenporträt

Ashis Nandy is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. He is a distinguished political psychologist, sociologist of science, and a futurist.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Part One
* 1: The State: The Fate of a Concept
* 2: Culture, State and the Rediscovery of Indian Politics
* Part Two
* 3: An Anti-Secularist Manifesto
* 4: The Twilight of Certitudes: Secularism, Hindu Nationalism and
Other Masks of Deculturation
* 5: Historys Forgotten Doubles
* 6: State, History, and Exile in South Asian Politics: Modernity and
the Landscape of Clandestine and Incommunicable Selves
* 7: Terrorism-Indian Style: The Birth of a Political Issue in a
Populist Democracy
* Part Three
* 8: Culture, Voice, and Development: A Primer for the Unsuspecting
* 9: Development and Violence
* 10: The Scope and Limits of Dissent: Indias First Modern
Environmentalist and His Critique of the DVC
* Index