“ashis nandy”

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 profiles of some of its greatest players. He also extends... More

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 complexities of Indian politics and culture.... More

This work 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 extent to which the colonial context within which these t... More

This book brings together three of Ashis Nandy's most significant works--At the Edge of Psychology, The Intimate Enemy, and Creating a Nationality (co-authored with Shikha Trivedy, Shail Mayaram, and Achyut Yagnik). It is essential reading for social and political scientists, and all those intereste... More

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.... More

In Time Warps: The Insistent Politics of Silent and Evasive Pasts Ashis Nandy argued that his work can be seen as ‘an adventure in one kind of time travel, where one mainly uses or invokes the past to shape the contemporary.’ In the present collection he reverses that journey. Using the metaphor... More

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 n... More

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.... More