Download or read book The Intimate Enemy written by Ashis Nandy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at colonialism in its social, political and psychological context. The author suggests that the fundamental character of colonialism is not so much economic or technological domination, but cultural subservience of the indigenous people, and the cultural arrogance of the rulers. Nandy bases his thesis largely on a study of Gandhi and Kipling in colonial India. The book is in two parts: The Psychology of Colonialism: Sex, Age, and Ideology, and part two: The Uncolonized Mind: A Post-colonial View of India and the West.
Download or read book At the Edge of Psychology written by Ashis Nandy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ashis Nandy written by Ramin Jahanbegloo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an adda of great minds, spanning generations and multiple nationalities. While one discusses creativity and aesthetics through Indian classical music, another recounts the pleasure of a simple walk. Another questions how it would be if Rabindranath Tagore lived in the twenty-first century; yet another, how ‘cool’ Indians are or might be in the future. Subjects as far apart as war and solitude find space in these musings. Through these lively engagements emerge key insights into the ideas, writings, and life of one of the foremost intellectuals of our time in Indian and global scholarship, thought, and dissent—Ashis Nandy.
Download or read book Alternative Sciences written by Ashis Nandy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 two men worked impinged on the calibre and nature of their research.
Download or read book The Intimate Enemy written by Ashis Nandy and published by Oxford India Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition, including a new preface by the author, 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.
Download or read book Talking India written by Ramin Jahanbegloo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a series of comprehensive interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo at Tehran and organized over six sessions. The interviewer questions Nundy within the context of his own 'Indian-ness' as also his affinity (and criticisms) for things Indian: whether it be thought, religion, or pluralistic tendencies. The essence of Ashis Nundy and his perspectives on a wide range of things include political philosophy, democracy, India and Pakistan, globalization, Indian culture and tradition, and Gandhi are all revealed.
Download or read book Ashis Nandy Chintane written by Ashis Nandy and published by Akshara Prakashana. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...ಅಶೀಶ್ ನಂದಿಯವರದು ಆರಾಮ ಕುರ್ಚಿಯ ಚಿಂತನೆ ಅಲ್ಲ; ಬದಲು, ಸಿದ್ಧ-ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತಗಳೆಂಬ ಆರಾಮ ಕುರ್ಚಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಒರಗಿದವರನ್ನು ಹೌಹಾರಿಸಿ ಬೀಳಿಸುವ ಚಿಂತನೆ. ಉದಾಹರಣೆಗೆ, ನಂದಿ ಅವರ ಪ್ರಕಾರ, ಸೆಕ್ಯುಲರಿಸಮ್ ಮತ್ತು ಕೋಮುವಾದಗಳು ಇವತ್ತು ಜನಪ್ರಿಯ ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪರಸ್ಪರ ಹೊಡೆದಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿರುವ ಶತ್ರುಗಳಂತೆ ಬಿಂಬಿತವಾಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೂ ಕೂಡ ನಿಜವಾಗಿ ಅವು ವಿರೋಧಿ ಮೂಲದ ಪರಿಕಲ್ಪನೆಗಳಲ್ಲ, ಮೂಲತಃ ಆಧುನಿಕತೆಯ ಅವ್ಯಕ್ತ ಸಂತಾನಗಳು; ಒಂದೇ ಸೊಂಟವನ್ನು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ ಸಯಾಮಿ ಅವಳಿಗಳು. ಆದ್ದರಿಂದಲೇ ಒಂದೆಡೆ ಸೆಕ್ಯುಲರಿಸಮ್ಮಿನ ಉಗ್ರ ಪ್ರತಿಪಾದನೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚುತ್ತಿದ್ದಂತೆ, ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಾತ್ಮಕವಾಗಿ ಇನ್ನೊಂದೆಡೆ ಅಷ್ಟೇ ಪ್ರಬಲವಾದ ಕೋಮುವಾದವೂ ಬಲಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತ ಹೋಗುತ್ತದೆ - ಎಂಬ ಸೂಚನೆಯನ್ನು ನಂದಿಯವರ ಬರಹಗಳು ಮುಂದಿಡುತ್ತವೆ... ಹಾಗಂತ, ಇಂಥ ಒಂದು ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾಪವನ್ನು ನಂದಿಯವರು ರೋಚಕವಾದ ಒಂದು ರೂಪಕವಾಗಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಮಂಡಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನೂ ನಾವು ಅಗತ್ಯ ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕು. ಬದಲು, ಇಂಥ ವೈರುದ್ಧಗಳು ಹೇಗೆ ಇವತ್ತಿನ ಕಾಲದ ನಮ್ಮ ವಿದ್ಯಮಾನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮೇಲುಗಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಕಾಣದ ಹಾಗೆ ಕರಗಿಹೋಗಿವೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನೂ ಸಾವಧಾನವಾಗಿ, ವಾಸ್ತವಾಂಶಗಳ ಅಧ್ಯಯನಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ಅವರು ಬಿಚ್ಚಿಡುತ್ತ ಹೋಗುತ್ತಾರೆ... ಹೀಗೆ, ನಾವು ಯಾವುದನ್ನು ಸ್ವತಃಸಿದ್ಧ ಸತ್ಯ ಎಂದು ನಂಬಿರುತ್ತೇವೋ ಅದನ್ನು ಬೇರೆ ದಿಕ್ಕಿನಿಂದ ಪರಾಮರ್ಶಿಸಿ, ಅದು ಹಲವೊಮ್ಮೆ ನಮ್ಮ ರೂಢಿಗತ ನಂಬಿಕೆಗಳ ಉತ್ಪನ್ನವಾಗಿರಬಹುದು, ಸಿದ್ಧಮಾದರಿಯ ಚಿಂತನೆಗಳ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಮಾತ್ರ ಆಗಿರಬಹುದು ಅಥವಾ ಕೆಲವೊಮ್ಮೆ ಕೇವಲ ಬೌದ್ಧಿಕ ಸೋಮಾರಿತನದ ಫಲವಷ್ಟೇ ಆಗಿರಬಹುದು - ಎಂದು ಯೋಚಿಸಲು ಹಚ್ಚುವುದೇ ಅಶೀಶ್ ನಂದಿಯವರ ಕ್ರಿಯಾಶೀಲತೆಯ ಮೂಲ ಆಶಯ... A Kannada book by Akshara Prakashana / ಅಕ್ಷರ ಪ್ರಕಾಶನ
Download or read book Traditions Tyranny and Utopias written by Ashis Nandy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of six essays on the nature of Western civilization and its impact in cultural and economic terms on the impoverished under-developed East, by a very distinguished political psychologist and social theorist.
Download or read book The Illegitimacy of Nationalism written by Ashis Nandy and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though It Deals With Indian Self-Construction The Insights The Essay Offers Into The Working Of A Political Ida Are Of Universal Significance, Especially In This Period Of Political Upheaval And Questioning.
Download or read book Breakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures written by PROFESSOR ASHIS. NANDY and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, systems of knowledge andforms of silence.
Download or read book Science Hegemony and Violence written by Ashis Nandy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by the United Nations University, the essays in this book focus on varying aspects of two basic issues: firstly, science as it provides justification for state violence and aristocracy; and secondly, science as violent technological intervention, which invades and disrupts privateand stable patterns of life in the name of progress and development.
Download or read book The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves written by Ashis Nandy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of India's leading public intellectuals, Ashis Nandy is a highly influential critic of modernity, science, nationalism, and secularism. In this, his most important collection of essays so far, he seeks to locate cultural forms and languages of being and thinking that defy the logic and hegemony of the modern West. The core of the volume consists of two ambitious, deeply probing essays, one on the early success of psychoanalysis in India, the other on the justice meted out by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal to the defeated Japanese. Both issues are viewed in the context of the psychology of dominance over a subservient or defeated culture. This theme is explored further in essays on mass culture and the media, political terrorism, the hold of modern medicine, and, notably, the conflict or split between the creative work of writers like Kipling, Rushdie, and H. G. Wells, and the political and social values they publicly and rationally present. Also included is a controversial essay by Nandy on the issue of sati, or widow's suicide.
Download or read book Dissenting Knowledges Open Futures written by Vinay Lal and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashis Nandy has occupied a distinct and unrivaled place in the intellectual life of India over the course of the last three decades. He is unquestionably the country's most exciting, and perhaps its most controversial, thinker. He has been described variously as a cultural psychologist, futurist, political theorist, cultural critic, and much else. What is certain is that his writings on secularism, the Indian state, and contemporary Indian society have ineradicably altered the framework by which India is sought to be understood. Nandy's some twenty odd books cover a vast terrain and offer trenchant critiques of the modern nation-state system, the supposed rationality of science, the violence of development, and the zero-sum politics of our times. Writing on subjects as diverse as the popular Hindi film, psychoanalysis, the cinema of Satyajit Ray, childhood, the culture of cricket, Gandhian politics, the politics of utopias, and alternative futures, he lays bare the oppressive nature of modernity and provides a different framework for social action and alternative conceptions of culture. This volume is the first attempt to engage with the work of one of the most versatile thinkers in the world. A long conversation between Nandy and the editor, prefaced by the editor's introduction, furnishes some idea of the canvas of Nandy's thought and intellectual interests. A second section offers a brief sampling of his essays, some of them autobiographical and extensively revised for this volume; other pieces, originally written for The Times of India, suggest his stature as a public intellectual. A third, concluding section offers some analytical perspectives on Nandy's work by public intellectuals and scholars, among them literary critics, a film theorist, a historian of Chinese intellectual history, and a historian of the subaltern school. For the revised edition of this volume, a new introduction has been added and the bibliography of Nandy's writings has been updated.
Download or read book The Secret Politics of Our Desires written by Ashis Nandy and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema. It provokes a thinking of cinema as political in the widest sense - from its importance in ideas of nation and national cultural formation to class and gender.
Download or read book The Romance of the State written by Ashis Nandy and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume written as part of psychological biography of the Indian state, explore the scope, limits, and fate of some key concepts in the mainstream culture of politics that have come to structure India's public life. These concepts constitute the dominant public ideology within the consciousness of the expanding middle classes in the country and they range from concrete concerns like 'secularism' and 'development' to more abstract ones such as 'dissent' and 'history'. The essays, mostly inquire into the culture of the Indian state, suggest tangentially the directions in which to move for a cultural and psychological biography of the state. The idea of a moderate state, which was of a state that was neither over-burdened with the responsibility of engineering all aspects of its citizens' lives nor of seeking to extend the market and global capital into every corner of every society, was not unknown to all societies at all times. While such moderate states may not have been great successes and may not have survived, neither can the modern nation-state system claim to be the greatest success story of all times. The question of its survival as an arrangement of political communities, too, remains to be finally decided. The essays in this book explore the vicissitudes of the idea of the modern state under different cultural and psychological conditions.
Download or read book The Tao of Cricket written by Ashis Nandy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 his analysis to the modern urban-industrial ethic and mass culture.
Download or read book An Ambiguous Journey to the City written by Ashis Nandy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic differences between city and village life in India.
