Time Warps: Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion

by Ashis Nandy

Book Overview

Ashis Nandy, one of India's foremost public intellectuals, contends in this book that India's political and cultural ?lites have been trying to impose a secular ideology on their country. This ideology makes little sense to most Indians, who have their own religious and cultural lives, their own diverse pasts, and their own principles of tolerance and hospitality.

Religious extremists have exploited this tension by offering packaged forms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813531195
• ISBN13: 9780813531199
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"