A Very Popular Exile

An Omnibus Comprising the Tao of Cricket; An Ambiguous Journey to the City; Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-806930-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 142 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

This paperback edition, with an Introduction by Imtiaz Ahmed, brings together three of Ashis Nandy's popular books-The Tao of Cricket, An Ambiguous Journey to the City, and Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias. The first uses the metaphor of cricket to examine how the politics of cultural choices has played out in South Asia. Nandy examines the evolution of the game itself-a legacy of the colonial past that has been increasingly appropriated to South Asian popular
culture. This is a book on cricket that after a point becomes a psychological analysis of worldviews, ideologies, cultural exchanges, and political choices. The second is the story of the myth of the journey between the village and the city and the changes that myth has undergone. By showing that the
urban-industrial vision as the hallmark of civilization is a misnomer, Nandy reiterates the need to recover the village in the Indian imagination in order to fully realize its potential. The third book is a critique of the Western model of linear progress and an examination of the ambivalent East-West relationship. He is particularly interested in uncovering the subversive ways in which the oppressed, even in their subjugation, reject these imposed technocratic values to find alternative humane
concepts of compassion, justice, dissent, and freedom.

Zielgruppe

Will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, psychology, as well as policymakers, activists, and those interested in Indian politics and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nandy, Ashis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
I. The Tao of Cricket
On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games
Preface; Preface to the OUP Edition
1.: Tradition, Transgression and Norms
2.: The Wistful Camel and the Eye of the Needle
3.: Victory, Defeat and the Future of the Savage
Notes
Index
II. An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination
Preface
1.: The Journey to the Past as a Journey into the Self: The Remembered Village and the Poisoned City
2.: The City as the Invitation to an Antique Death: Pramathesh Chandra Barua and the Origins of the Terribly Effeminate, Maudlin, Self-destructive Heroes of Indian Cinema
3.: The Journey to the Village as a Journey to the Centre of the Self: Mrinal Sen's Search for a Radical Cinema
4.: The Invisible Holocaust and the Journey as an Exodus: The Poisoned Village and the Stranger City
Index
III. Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness Foreword by Roger Garaudy
Preface
1.: Evaluating Utopias: Considerations for a Dialogue of Cultures and Faiths
2.: Towards a Third World Utopia
3.: Reconstructing Childhood: A Critique of the Ideology of Adulthood
4.: The Traditions of Technology
5.: Science, Authoritarianism and Culture: On the Scope and Limits of Isolation Outside the Clinic
6.: From Outside the Imperium: Gandhi's Cultural Critique of the West; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ashis Nandy is Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.