Nandy, Ashis.

Time warps : the insistent politics of silent and evasive pasts / Ashis Nandy. - Delhi : Bangalore : Permanent Black in association with Ravi Dayal Publisher, New Delhi ; Distributed by Orient Longman, c2001. - 244 p. : 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contending stories in the culture of Indian politics : traditions and the future of democracy -- Democratic culture and images of the State : India's unending ambivalence -- The politics of secularism and the recovery of religious tolerance -- Coping with the politics of faiths and cultures : between secular state and ecumenical traditions in India -- A report on the present state of health of the gods and goddesses in South Asia -- Time travel to a possible self : searching for the alternative cosmopolitanism of Cochin -- Violence and creativity in the late twentieth century : Rabindranath Tagore and the problem of testimony.

8178240203

Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office Rs495.00

2002314781


Political culture--India.
Political sociology.


India--Politics and government--1947-

JQ281 / .N36 2001

320.54 / NAT