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Time Warps

Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion

Nandy Ashis


Editeur - Casa editrice

Rutgers University Press

  Asia
India



Anno - Date de Parution

2002

Pagine - Pages

244

Lingua - language - langue

eng


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Ashis Nandy, one of India's foremost public intellectuals, contends in this book that India's political and cultural elites have been trying to impose a secular ideology on their country. This ideology makes little sense to most Indians, who have their own religious and cultural lives, their own diverse pasts, and their own principles of tolerance and hospitality.

Religious extremists have exploited this tension by offering packaged forms of ancient faiths, with ready-made theories of violence and hatred. The resulting clash has fragmented Indians' views of their precolonial past as well as their increasingly globalized present. In a country with deep roots in legendary pasts, some of these pasts have been made "silent" or "evasive" in the service of modern ideological agendas. They are no longer as easily drawn upon to oppose the forces of intolerance and hatred.

Most of the essays survey the ways in which India's colonial secularism has produced some of the conditions for the current rise of Hindu nationalism. He shows how both religious nationalists and secular modernists have employed the colonial state's ideology-producing power to blend the "religious" and "secular" domains. In the process, the indigenous traditions battling sectarianism and religious extremism have been marginalized. Nandy argues that it is possible to reclaim India's rich, multicultural pasts and alternative forms of cosmopolitanism in order to rescue a truly multicultural present.

 


Recensione in altra lingua (English):

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
1. Contending Stories in the Culture of Indian Politics: Traditions and the Future
of Democracy
2. Democratic Culture and Images of the State: India’s Unending Ambivalence
3. The Politics of Secularism and the Recovery of Religious Tolerance
4. Coping with the Politics of Faith and Cultures: Between Secular State and
Ecumenical Traditions in India
5. A Report on the Present State of Health of Gods and Goddesses in South
Asia
6. Time Travel to a Possible Self: Searching for the Alternative Cosmopolitanism
of Cochin
7. Violence and Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century: Rabindranath Tagore
and the Problem of Testimony
NAME INDEX

SUBJECT INDEX



Biografia

ASHIS NANDY began his journey as a clinical psychologist and sociologist and, during the last three decades, has traveled through some of the most unfamiliar territories of social knowledge, such as future studies, postdevelopmental visions, and alternatives. Amongst his books are 'At the Edge of Psychology', ' The Illegitimacy of Nationalism', and 'The Tao of Cricket'. He is presently working on a dictionary for the twenty-first century and a study of genocide and reconstruction of lives after mass violence.
He is associated with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Future, both in Delhi, India.