The need for enemies
Subtitle: a bestiary of political forms
By: F.G. Bailey.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Political culture -- India -- Orissa; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- India -- Orissa; Opposition (Political science); Enemies (Persons); Political psychology; Orissa (India) -- Politics and government
Description: Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F.G. Bailey returns to the state of Orissa in the eastern India of the 1950s to consider what held a diverse collection of people together and what drove them apart. The last of Bailey's books about Orissa, The Need for Enemies offers a groundlevel view of regional politics in South Asia in the years following independence.

In doing so, the book analyzes political problems that are of universal concern: incivility in public life, the inescapable dilemma of duty always in tension with interests, public consensus on what is right and good giving way to a babel of inconsistent moralities, and, not least, true believers contesting realists who see virtue in compromise.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index.