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The argumentative Indian : writings on Indian history, culture and identity / Amartya Sen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Penguin Books, 2006Copyright date: ©2005Description: xx, 409 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141012117
  • 0141012110
Other title:
  • Writings on Indian history, culture and identity
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954 23
LOC classification:
  • DS423 .S33 2006
Contents:
Part One. Voice and heterodoxy -- 1. The augmentative Indian -- 2. Inequality, instability and voice -- 3. India : large and small -- 4. The diaspora and the world -- Part Two. Culture and communication -- 5. Tagore and his India -- 6. Our culture, their culture -- 7. Indian traditions and the Western imagination -- 8. China and India -- Part Three. Politics and protest -- 9. Tryst with destiny -- 10. Class in India -- 11. Women and men -- 12. India and the bomb -- Part Four. Reason and identity -- 13. The reach of reason -- 14. Secularism and its discontents -- 15. India through its calendars -- 16. The Indian identity.
Summary: "The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition."--Publisher's website.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 954 SEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A540631B

First published by Allen Lane, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. Voice and heterodoxy -- 1. The augmentative Indian -- 2. Inequality, instability and voice -- 3. India : large and small -- 4. The diaspora and the world -- Part Two. Culture and communication -- 5. Tagore and his India -- 6. Our culture, their culture -- 7. Indian traditions and the Western imagination -- 8. China and India -- Part Three. Politics and protest -- 9. Tryst with destiny -- 10. Class in India -- 11. Women and men -- 12. India and the bomb -- Part Four. Reason and identity -- 13. The reach of reason -- 14. Secularism and its discontents -- 15. India through its calendars -- 16. The Indian identity.

"The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition."--Publisher's website.

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