The Argumentative Indian
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Beschreibung
India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints.
Out of these conflicting views spring a rich tradition of skeptical argument and cultural achievement which is critically important, argues Amartya Sen, for the success of India's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace.
> William Dalrymple, Sunday Times
'One of the most influential public thinkers of our times...This is a book that needed to have been written...It would be no surprise if it were to become as defining and as influential as work as Edward Said's Orientalism'
Soumya Bhattacharya, Observer
> The Economist
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His most recent books are The Idea of Justice, Identity and Violence and Development as Freedom. His books have been translated into thirty languages.
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This fascinating book on Indian identity is a journey with its ups and downs. The author tries his best to stay neutral, but at times it does get over passionate and an angry bias is visible. Sen sometimes seems in a trance repeating stuff that either makes you feel safe in a familiar territory and or makes you go "Not again". Sometimes he beats around the bush intentionally not wanting to highlight a disputed or vague topic. And at other times he is in such a hurry running after his departing train of thought leaving the reader stranded in middle of an intense conversation. But it does its job splendindly evoking in me a sense of pride and fanning my curiosity about being an Indian and being a Hindu athesit, about the scriptures and epics, about the fellow countrymen Tagore, Satyajit Ray and Aryabhatta, about its rulers Ashoka and Akbar, about its university Nalanda, about its history of multi religions and ethnicities, about its progress in science and astronomy. This is in no way an easy read but surely a book on history emphasizing reasoning over traditions deserves our attention.
Beschreibung
India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints.
Out of these conflicting views spring a rich tradition of skeptical argument and cultural achievement which is critically important, argues Amartya Sen, for the success of India's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace.
> William Dalrymple, Sunday Times
'One of the most influential public thinkers of our times...This is a book that needed to have been written...It would be no surprise if it were to become as defining and as influential as work as Edward Said's Orientalism'
Soumya Bhattacharya, Observer
> The Economist
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His most recent books are The Idea of Justice, Identity and Violence and Development as Freedom. His books have been translated into thirty languages.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
This fascinating book on Indian identity is a journey with its ups and downs. The author tries his best to stay neutral, but at times it does get over passionate and an angry bias is visible. Sen sometimes seems in a trance repeating stuff that either makes you feel safe in a familiar territory and or makes you go "Not again". Sometimes he beats around the bush intentionally not wanting to highlight a disputed or vague topic. And at other times he is in such a hurry running after his departing train of thought leaving the reader stranded in middle of an intense conversation. But it does its job splendindly evoking in me a sense of pride and fanning my curiosity about being an Indian and being a Hindu athesit, about the scriptures and epics, about the fellow countrymen Tagore, Satyajit Ray and Aryabhatta, about its rulers Ashoka and Akbar, about its university Nalanda, about its history of multi religions and ethnicities, about its progress in science and astronomy. This is in no way an easy read but surely a book on history emphasizing reasoning over traditions deserves our attention.