The argumentative Indian : writings on Indian history, culture and identity / Amartya Sen.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Penguin Books, 2006Copyright date: ©2005Description: xx, 409 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780141012117
- 0141012110
- Writings on Indian history, culture and identity
- 954 23
- DS423 .S33 2006
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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