Talking India: Ashis Nandy in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Ashis Nandy and Ramin Jahanbegloo
Abstract
Multifaceted thinker and prolific author, Ashis Nandy is considered one of India's leading intellectuals. For someone trained as a clinical psychologist and a sociologist, he continues to cross disciplinary boundaries and capture the imagination of the reading public and everyone interested in the world of ideas. This book explores Nandy's myriad and unpredictable ways of thinking and the essential humanism of his writings, which are a homage to the known and unknown victims of history. The book has grown out of a series of six comprehensive interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Irania ... More
Multifaceted thinker and prolific author, Ashis Nandy is considered one of India's leading intellectuals. For someone trained as a clinical psychologist and a sociologist, he continues to cross disciplinary boundaries and capture the imagination of the reading public and everyone interested in the world of ideas. This book explores Nandy's myriad and unpredictable ways of thinking and the essential humanism of his writings, which are a homage to the known and unknown victims of history. The book has grown out of a series of six comprehensive interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher, wherein he questions Nandy within the context of his own ‘Indian-ness’ and his affinity with and criticisms of things Indian—from philosophical thought and religion to cultural pluralism and participatory democracy. The conversation covers Nandy's perspectives on a wide range of issues, including political cultures of India and Pakistan and the future of democracy in South Asia, globalization, the survival of Indian culture and traditions, and Gandhi. Talking India is not only a dialogue between two intellectuals from the East, but also part of a broader global dialogue of cultures and an exercise in mutual learning.
Keywords:
Ashis Nandy,
Indian intellectuals,
Ramin Jahanbegloo,
Iranian philosopher,
Indian-ness,
religion,
cultural pluralism,
democracy,
globalization
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195678987 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195678987.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Ashis Nandy, author
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Ramin Jahanbegloo, author
Cultural Research Bureau, Tehran
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