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The destruction of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in December 1992 was a watershed in the politics of independent India. It was also an apocalyptic turning-point for community life at Ayodhya, and for the highly interdependent cultural lives of Hindus and Muslims living there. This book narrates how Ayodhya's inhabitants experienced the events that led up to and followed the destruction of the mosque.

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, through his entire life till now. Naturally, it covers the whole span of the ever-changing demography of his intellectual life. His intellectual practices span across countries, continents, languages, sy...

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A discussion of how the large, impersonal Indian state has affected the lives of its citizens since Independence in 1947. It focuses on how the multiple nature of psychological identity in the sub-continent was affected by the imposition of a stridently secular ethos by the country's elites.

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This book brings together a series of interviews conducted by noted Iranian social scientist Ramin Jahanbagloo. These interviews cover the ideas of Indian-ness, Indian thought, religion, politics, secularism, and pluralism, as well as Gandhi, India and Pakistan, democracy, globalization and culture.

In this rare collection of essays, Ashis Nandy talks about an India where things have changed drastically in recent years. Looking at the nationalism of Gandhi and Tagore, Savarkar, and Madanlal Pahwa, and cultural psychology, terror and counter-terror, humiliation and human degradation, happiness, and modernity and the sense of loss, the essays open up the future for the next generation of intellectuals and political activists in India and in...

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Political, economic, and cultural domination under colonialism has repeatedly been studied during the last hundred years. Breaking with the tradition, Ashis Nandy explores the ways in which colonialism damaged the colonizing societies themselves, and how the likes of Gandhi resisted their rulers in British India by building on the lifestyle, values, and psychology of ordinary Indians and by heeding dissenting voices from the West. This edition...

Divided into four sections, 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. It loks at the vicissitudes of the metaphor of journey, profiles various heroes as they negotiate the transitions from the village to the city and back to the village, and focuses on the psychopathological journey from a poisoned villag...

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.

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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, even as they offer guidance in the regeneration and re-enchantment of our own selves.

This omnibus consists of: The Tao of Cricket-a commentary on how both South Asia's race towards development and its longing for a lost lifestyle find expression in the game of cricket, An Ambiguous Journey to the City-an account of how true Indian cosmopolitanism cannot be realized without engaging with the myth of the village, Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias-an exploration of how the oppressed subvert Western imperialistic ideas in order to ...

Ashis Nandy, one of India's foremost public intellectuals, contends in this book that India's political and cultural elites have been trying to impose a secular ideology on their country. This ideology makes little sense to most Indians, who have their own religious and cultural lives, their own diverse pasts, and their own principles of tolerance and hospitality.Religious extremists have exploited this tension by offering packaged forms of an...

To examine the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema is to study Indian modernity at its rawest. The questions and perspectives this book presents aim to provoke a thinking of cinema that is political in the widest sense.

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 increasingly dominated by a narrow range of ideologies, one must affirm that social ethics and a more humane society can be based on grounds other than those framed for the past 200 years by political ...

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 increasingly dominated by a narrow range of ideologies, one must affirm that social ethics and a more humane society can be based on grounds other than those framed for the past 200 years by political ...