The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism - Couverture rigide

Nandy, Ashis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195615050 ISBN 13 : 9780195615050

Editeur : OUP India, 1984

Synopsis

This book looks at colonialism in its social, political, and psychological context, basing its thesis largely on a study of Gandhi and Kipling in India.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 Preface 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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book looks at colonialism in its social, political and psychological context. The author suggests that the fundamental character of colonialism is not so much economic or technological domination, but cultural subservience of the indigenous people, and the cultural arrogance of the rulers. Nandy bases his thesis largely on a study of Gandhi and Kipling in colonial India. The book is in two parts: The Psychology of Colonialism: Sex, Age, and Ideology, and part two: The Uncolonized Mind: A Post-colonial View of India and the West.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195615050
• ISBN 13: 9780195615050
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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