India revisited : conversations on contemporary India
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India revisited : conversations on contemporary India
Oxford University Press, 2008
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This collection of interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo looks at India and Indias place in the world today through the experiences of twenty-seven leading Indian personalities. Jahanbegloo, as someone attempting to understand India, questions the contradictions of life in India: the long history of religious tolerance and growing religious fundamentalism, democracy and caste, equality and the low status of women, the affluent urban areas and the impoverished rural tracts. But looking beyond these contradictions, Jahanbegloo finds that after sixty years of Independence, the society, economy, and culture of India continue to develop in many ways. Including interviews with Romila Thapar, Partha Chatterjee, Ashis Nandy, Mushirul Hasan, M.J. Akbar, Vandana Shiva, the Dalai Lama, Mrinal Sen, Sonal Mansingh, and many others, this book is a one-of-a-kind view of contemporary India, for Indians as well as for non-Indians.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Making Sense of India o ROMILA THAPAR: Being an Indian Today o KAPILA VATSYAYAN: Elements of Diversity o J.C. KAPOOR: Westernization of Modern India o PARTHA CHATTERJEE: Modernity and Indian Nationalism o ASHIS NANDY: Gandhi and the Indian Identity o SOLI SORABJEE: The Indian Constitution, its Strengths and Weaknesses o RAJNI KOTHARI: Indian Democracy and Pluralism o T.N. MADAN: Critiquing Secularism o D.L. SHETH: Caste in Modern India o SURENDRA PRASAD: Science and Society o AMIT BHADURI: Economics of Inequality o KRISHNA KUMAR: Evaluating Education o M.J. AKBAR: Politics and Democracy in Indiao HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI LAMA: Buddhism and India o PETER DE SOUZA: Christianity in India o T.R. ANDHYARUJINA: Role of Parsis in Modern India o MUSHIRUL HASAN: Challenges to Islam in India o SUDHIR KAKAR: The Indian Psyche o NIVEDITA MENON: The Woman Question o VANDANA SHIVA: Fighting Indiscriminate Modernization o RUCHIRA GUPTA: Role of NGOs in People-oriented Development o GEETA KAPUR: The Story of Modern Indian Art o SONAL MANSINGH: Indian Classical Dance as a Genre o RAJ REWAL: Evolving Architecture with an Indian Inspiration o MRINAL SEN: Filming India o MADHUP MUDGAL: Significance of Hindustani Classical Music o PRABASH JOSHI: Cricket as an Indian Game
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