The argumentative Indian : writings on Indian history, culture and identity
(2005)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
954/SEN,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
xx, 409 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0374105839 (hardcover : alk. paper), 9780374105839
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The argumentative Indian -- Inequality, instability, and voice -- India: large and small -- The diaspora and the world -- Tagore and his India -- Our culture--their culture -- Indian traditions and the Western imagination -- China and India -- Tryst with destiny -- Class in India -- Women and men -- India and the bomb -- The reach of reason -- Secularism and its discontents -- India through its calendars -- The Indian identity
Voice and heterodoxy -- Culture and communication -- Politics and protest -- Reason and identity