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050 00 $aDS423$b.S338 2005
082 00 $a954$222
100 1 $aSen, Amartya,$d1933-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50012860
245 14 $aThe argumentative Indian :$bwritings on Indian history, culture, and identity /$cAmartya Sen.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2005.
300 $axx, 409 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe argumentative Indian -- $g2.$tInequality, instability and voice -- $g3.$tIndia : large and small -- $g4.$tThe diaspora and the world -- $g5.$tTagore and his India -- $g6.$tOur culture, their culture -- $g7.$tIndian traditions and the Western imagination -- $g8.$tChina and India -- $g9.$tTryst with destiny -- $g10.$tClass in India -- $g11.$tWomen and men -- $g12.$tIndia and the bomb -- $g13.$tThe reach of reason -- $g14.$tSecularism and its discontents -- $g15.$tIndia through its calendars -- $g16.$tThe Indian identity.
520 1 $a"In The Argumentative Indian, the Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime's study of his country's history and culture to suggest how we might understand India today in the light of its rich, long argumentative tradition." "Though Westerners may sometimes perceive it as a place of endless spirituality and mysticism, India has a long-standing tradition of skepticism and reasoning, and its contributions to mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine and economics are imperishable evidence of this. In sixteen linked essays, Sen discusses aspects of this intellectual and political heritage, including philosophies of governance from Kautilya's and Ashoka's in the fourth and third centuries B.C.E. to Akbar's in the 1590s; the continuing relevance of India's relations with China more than a millennium ago; its old and well-organized calendars; the films of Satyajit Ray; and the debates between Gandhi and the visionary poet Rabindranath Tagore about India's past, present and future."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aIndia$xCivilization.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064872
852 00 $bleh$hDS423$i.S338 2005