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Author:   Ashis Nandy
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.512kg
ISBN:  

9780198069300

ISBN 10:   0198069308
Pages:   540
Publication Date:   December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; I. The Tao of Cricket; On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games ; Preface; Preface to the OUP Edition ; 1: Tradition, Transgression and Norms; 2: The Wistful Camel and the Eye of the Needle; 3: Victory, Defeat and the Future of the Savage ; Notes ; Index ; II. An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination; Preface ; 1: The Journey to the Past as a Journey into the Self: The Remembered Village and the Poisoned City; 2: The City as the Invitation to an Antique Death: Pramathesh Chandra Barua and the Origins of the Terribly Effeminate, Maudlin, Self-destructive Heroes of Indian Cinema; 3: The Journey to the Village as a Journey to the Centre of the Self: Mrinal Sen's Search for a Radical Cinema; 4: The Invisible Holocaust and the Journey as an Exodus: The Poisoned Village and the Stranger City; Index ; III. Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness Foreword by Roger Garaudy ; Preface ; 1: Evaluating Utopias: Considerations for a Dialogue of Cultures and Faiths; 2: Towards a Third World Utopia; 3: Reconstructing Childhood: A Critique of the Ideology of Adulthood; 4: The Traditions of Technology; 5: Science, Authoritarianism and Culture: On the Scope and Limits of Isolation Outside the Clinic; 6: From Outside the Imperium: Gandhi's Cultural Critique of the West; Index.

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Ashis Nandy is Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

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