Time warps
Subtitle: the insistent politics of silent and evasive pasts
By: Ashis Nandy.
Publisher: Permanent Black in association with Ravi Dayal Publisher, New Delhi; Distributed by Orient Longman
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Delhi; Bangalore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Political culture -- India.; Political sociology.; India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Contending stories in the culture of Indian politics : traditions and the future of democracy; title: Democratic culture and images of the State : India's unending ambivalence; title: The politics of secularism and the recovery of religious tolerance; title: Coping with the politics of faiths and cultures : between secular state and ecumenical traditions in India; title: A report on the present state of health of the gods and goddesses in South Asia; title: Time travel to a possible self : searching for the alternative cosmopolitanism of Cochin; title: Violence and creativity in the late twentieth century : Rabindranath Tagore and the problem of testimony.