Ashis Nandy

This book examines the myth of the journey from the village to the city and shows how this myth and the changes it has undergone provide rich insight on India's ambivalent affair with the modern city. The first section looks at the vicissitudes of the metaphor of journey, especially the imagination of the hero as it intersects with the imagined city. The next two sections profile various heroes as they negotiate the transitions from the village to the city and back to the village. The final section focuses on the psychopathological journey from a poisoned village into a self-annihilating city, and the narrative draws parallels with the violence in 1946-8, the period which saw the birth of modern India and Pakistan.

The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination

An Ambiguous Journey to the City

Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema

The Secret Politics of our Desires

Ramin Jahanbegloo

Ashis Nandy in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo

Talking India

They are no longer as easily drawn upon to oppose the forces of intolerance and hatred.".

Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion

Time Warps

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.

Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism

The Intimate Enemy

Comprising, At the Edge of Psychology, The Intimate Enemy, Creating a Nationality

Exiled at Home

Essays in Politics and Culture

At the Edge of Psychology

Ziauddin Sardar

Merryl Wyn Davies

A book about the convenient myopia which, through the ages, has allowed - and continues to allow - the West to see other peoples as subjects, infidels, even savages. The authors begin by setting Columbus' travels in context and revealing the extent to which his voyage of discovery mirrored the colonial anxieties of the times. This is an account of Eurocentricity in its most potent forms - from the medieval view of demons and demigods, to the colonial perception that those who were not like us were somehow less than human, existing only to be used like any other commodity.

A Manifesto on Western Racism

Barbaric Others

Comprising At the Edge of Psychology, The Intimate Enemy and Creating a Nationality (Oxford India Paperbacks)

An important collection of essays being published in a completely revised form, in Nandy's characteristically ebullient style, in which he challenges received topics ranging from sati and terrorism to the role of psychoanalysis in South Asia, and the `justice' imposed by war crimes tribunals.

And Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves

The Savage Freud

Basic differences between city and village life in India.

The Essential Ashis Nandy.

Towards a Politics of Visions

Aakash Singh Rathore

What is the nation? What is the idea of India? Whose India is it, anyway? This inaugural volume in the series titled Rethinking India aims to kickstart a national dialogue on the key questions of our times. It brings together India's foremost intellectuals, academics, activists, technocrats, professionals and policymakers to offer an in-depth exploration of these issues, deriving from their long-standing work, experience and unflinching commitment to the collective idea of India, of who we can and ought to be. Vision for a Nation: Paths and Perspectives champions a plural, inclusive, just, equitable and prosperous India, committed to individual dignity as the foundation of the unity and vibrancy of the nation. In order to further disseminate these ideas-the vision for the nation as aspirationally reflected in the Constitution-this book provides a positive counter-narrative to reclaim the centrality of a progressive, deeply plural and forward-looking and inclusive India. It serves as a fresh reminder of our shared and shareable overlapping values and principles, and collective heritage and resources. The essays in the book are meaningful to anyone with an interest in contemporary Indian politics, South Asian studies, modern Indian history, law, sociology, media and journalism.

Paths and Perspectives

Vision for a Nation

Ashis Nandy

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