Deepak Kumar

The Trishanku Nation

Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of nine reflective essays on post-independence India. Based on memory, both historical and personal, these provide a critical and truthful account of an average citizen's life and the society. It covers issues in governance, education, science, religion, culture, etc. as seen during the last five decades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780199461530
• ISBN-10: 0199461538
• Artikelnr.: 47869857

Autorenporträt

Deepak Kumar is Professor, Z.H.Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Mofussil in a Mirror
2: Move to the Metropolis
3: Tectonic Shifts
4: Our Polity
5: Market and the Watchdogs
6: Knowledge and Education
7: Reason and Religion: Historic Rivals
8: Science, Technology and Development
9: Whither India
Index
About the Author