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An omnibus comprising The Tao of Cricket; An Ambiguous Journey to the City; Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 7 October 2010
- ISBN 9780198069300
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages540 pages
- Size 216x140x30 mm
- Weight 512 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This omnibus consists of: The Tao of Cricket-a commentary on how both South Asia's race towards development and its longing for a lost lifestyle find expression in the game of cricket; An Ambiguous Journey to the City-an account of how true Indian cosmopolitanism cannot be realized without engaging with the myth of the village; Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias-an exploration of how the oppressed subvert Western imperialistic ideas in order to find an alternative system of values.
MoreLong description:
This paperback edition, with an Introduction by Imtiaz Ahmed, brings together three of Ashis Nandy's popular books-The Tao of Cricket, An Ambiguous Journey to the City, and Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias. The first uses the metaphor of cricket to examine how the politics of cultural choices has played out in South Asia. Nandy examines the evolution of the game itself-a legacy of the colonial past that has been increasingly appropriated to South Asian popular culture. This is a book on cricket that after a point becomes a psychological analysis of worldviews, ideologies, cultural exchanges, and political choices. The second is the story of the myth of the journey between the village and the city and the changes that myth has undergone. By showing that the urban-industrial vision as the hallmark of civilization is a misnomer, Nandy reiterates the need to recover the village in the Indian imagination in order to fully realize its potential. The third book is a critique of the Western model of linear progress and an examination of the ambivalent East-West relationship. He is particularly interested in uncovering the subversive ways in which the oppressed, even in their subjugation, reject these imposed technocratic values to find alternative humane concepts of compassion, justice, dissent, and freedom.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
I. The Tao of Cricket
On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games
Preface; Preface to the OUP Edition
Tradition, Transgression and Norms
The Wistful Camel and the Eye of the Needle
Victory, Defeat and the Future of the Savage
Notes
Index
II. An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination
Preface
The Journey to the Past as a Journey into the Self: The Remembered Village and the Poisoned City
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
The Journey to the Village as a Journey to the Centre of the Self: Mrinal Sen's Search for a Radical Cinema
The Invisible Holocaust and the Journey as an Exodus: The Poisoned Village and the Stranger City
Index
III. Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness Foreword by Roger Garaudy
Preface
Evaluating Utopias: Considerations for a Dialogue of Cultures and Faiths
Towards a Third World Utopia
Reconstructing Childhood: A Critique of the Ideology of Adulthood
The Traditions of Technology
Science, Authoritarianism and Culture: On the Scope and Limits of Isolation Outside the Clinic
From Outside the Imperium: Gandhi's Cultural Critique of the West; Index.
