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A very popular exile/ Ashis Nandy

By: Nandy, AshisMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008Description: 168 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0195693221Subject(s): Popular culture | Civilization | Ethnology | Motion pictures--Social aspectsDDC classification: 321.03

Contents:

Introduction. I. The Tao of Cricket: On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games: Preface. 1. Tradition, transgression and norms -- 2. The wistful camel and the eye of the needle -- 3. Victory, defeat and the future of the savage --- II. An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination: Preface. 1. The journey to the past as a journey into the self: The remembered village and the poisoned city -- 2. The city as the invitation to an antique death: Pramathesh Chandra Barua and the origins of the terribly effeminate, Maudlin, Self-destructive heroes of Indian Cinema -- 3. The journey to the village as a journey to the centre of the self: Mrinal Sen's Search for a Radical Cinema -- 4. The Invisible holocaust and the journey as an Exodus: The poisoned village and the stranger city --- III. Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness: Foreword by Roger Garaudy. Preface. 1. Evaluating Utopias: Considerations for a dialogue of cultures and faiths -- 2. Towards a Third World Utopia -- 3. Reconstructing childhood: A critique of the ideology of adulthood -- 4. The tradition of technology -- 5. Science, authoritarianism and culture: On the scope and limits of isolation outside the clinic -- 6. From outside the imperium: Gandhi's cultural critique of the West.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	321.03 NAN/A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P03360

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Introduction. I. The Tao of Cricket: On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games: Preface. 1. Tradition, transgression and norms --
2. The wistful camel and the eye of the needle --
3. Victory, defeat and the future of the savage ---
II. An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination: Preface. 1. The journey to the past as a journey into the self: The remembered village and the poisoned city --
2. The city as the invitation to an antique death: Pramathesh Chandra Barua and the origins of the terribly effeminate, Maudlin, Self-destructive heroes of Indian Cinema --
3. The journey to the village as a journey to the centre of the self: Mrinal Sen's Search for a Radical Cinema --
4. The Invisible holocaust and the journey as an Exodus: The poisoned village and the stranger city ---
III. Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness: Foreword by Roger Garaudy. Preface. 1. Evaluating Utopias: Considerations for a dialogue of cultures and faiths --
2. Towards a Third World Utopia --
3. Reconstructing childhood: A critique of the ideology of adulthood --
4. The tradition of technology --
5. Science, authoritarianism and culture: On the scope and limits of isolation outside the clinic --
6. From outside the imperium: Gandhi's cultural critique of the West.

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