The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
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Political, economic, and cultural domination under colonialism has repeatedly been studied during the last hundred years. Breaking with the tradition, Ashis Nandy explores the ways in which colonialism damaged the colonizing societies themselves, and how the likes of Gandhi resisted their rulers in British India by building on the lifestyle, values, and psychology of ordinary Indians and by heeding dissenting voices from the West. This edition, with a new postscript by the author, commemorates twenty-five years of the book being in print. The book will appeal to general readers as well as students and scholars of sociology, history, psychology, and cultural studies.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0198062176
ISBN13:9780198062172
Release Date:August 2009
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.42 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"
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Very very interesting
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This book cannot be read fast. I first heard of this philosopher on the French Cultural Radio in a program on Islam in India. If you know about Franz Fanon and other psycho-sociologists like Erik Fromm etc but you don't know about the consequences of colonization in the Sub-continent, this book is for you.
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