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The Argumentative Indian:

Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
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Macmillan, Sep 5, 2006 - Social Science - 409 pages
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian history and culture, and a tempered analysis of the highly charged disputes surrounding these subjects--the nature of Hindu traditions, Indian identity, the country's huge social and economic disparities, and its current place in the world" (Sunil Khilnani, Financial Times, U.K.).
  

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User Review  - Shehab Hamad - Goodreads

amartya sen is an intellectual giant and this a collection of his essays that ostensibly prove india's generous argumentative heritage. the book is in fact much more than an orientalism-like rebuttal ... Read full review

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User Review  - Pushkar Joshi - Goodreads

Will have to read 2-3 times more to write anything about it..!!! Read full review

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Contents

Inequality Instability and Voice
34
Large and Small
45
The Diaspora and the World
73
Tagore and His India
89
Our Culture Their Culture
121
Indian Traditions and the Western Imagination
139
China and India
161
Tryst with Destiny
193
India and the Bomb
251
The Reach of Reason
273
Secularism and Its Discontents
294
India through Its Calendars
317
The Indian Identity
334
Notes
357
Index of Names
393
General Index
401

Women and Men 120
195
Class in India
204

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About the author (2006)

Amartya Sen was born in 1933 and grew up in Santiniketan and in Dhaka (now the capital of Bangladesh). As a student in India and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, he "seriously flirted, in turn, with Sanskrit, mathematics and physics before settling for the eccentric charms of economics," as he has written. Now Lamont University Professor at Harvard, he was Master of Trinity College from 1998 to 2004, and has taught at many other universities in Britain, the United States, and India. When Professor Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, he was the first Asian to be so honored.

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