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Time Warps: The Insistent Politics of Silent and Evasive Pasts
Ashis Nandy
Price
250.00
ISBN
9788178240718
Language
English
Pages
220
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2003
Territorial Rights
Restricted
Imprint
Permanent Black

In this book Ashis Nandy, one of South Asia’s foremost public intellectuals, grapples with India’s political culture by looking from new perspectives at the country’s past, and by envisioning for the subcontinent a variety of alternative futures. He is able to do this by sidestepping the discipline of history and the ideological apparatus of the modern state. He argues that academic history and the state are overly reliant on three key categories—secularism, modern scientific rationality, and the social-evolutionist idea of progress. Nandy contends, in contrast, that although ordinary Indians possess the democratic right to political choice, they have been prevented from bringing into the centre of India’s public life the everyday categories and thought processes with which they actually live.

Ashis Nandy, is a political psychologist, cultural critic and futurist. He has been Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
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