The Importance of Not Being Earnest

A Memoir
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80374-625-8
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

This biographical account situates the unfolding of the life of an educator in varied socio-economic contexts. It is not just a narrative of how an individual evolves but also analyses how a particular mindset develops by being dialectically entwined with the milieu in which one passes different stages of their life. At one level, it is a historical narrative since it deals with a particular period of human history critical to the growth of a specific individual. At another, it provides ethnographic inputs to those who want to understand the peculiarities of the twentieth century. It offers first-hand accounts of the nature of transformative politics which evolved at the behest of Naxalites in India; it also has obvious twists and turns as the individual is exposed to a world beyond India. So, the narrative is individualistic, and it has elements of influences acquired through exposure to an alien socio-cultural milieu.
Apart from its analytical importance, this memoir provides a very realistic assessment of India’s education system through the lens of an educator and an academician.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakrabarty, Bidyut

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Bidyut Chakrabarty taught for more than three decades in the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. He later served and retired as the Vice-Chancellor of Visva Bharati from 2018–2023. He completed his PhD from London School of Economics and has several prestigious publications to his credit.