TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ashish Nandi
TI  - Time warps : the insistent politics of silent and evasive pasts
SN  - 9788178240718
U1  - 954 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Delhi 
PB  - Permanent Black
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Political sociology
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - India
N2  - In this book Ashis Nandy, one of South Asia’s foremost public intellectuals, grapples with India’s political culture by looking from new perspectives at the country’s past, and by envisioning for the subcontinent a variety of alternative futures. He is able to do this by sidestepping the discipline of history and the ideological apparatus of the modern state. He argues that academic history and the state are overly reliant on three key categories secularism, modern scientific rationality, and the social-evolutionist idea of progress. Nandy contends, in contrast, that although ordinary Indians possess the democratic right to political choice, they have been prevented from bringing into the centre of India’s public life the everyday categories and thought processes with which they actually live
ER  -