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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312426026)
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xIn sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian history and culture, and a tempered analysis of the highly charged disputes surrounding these subjects--the nature of Hindu traditions, Indian identity, the country's huge social and economic disparities, and its current place in the world" (Sunil Khilnani, Financial Times, U.K.).
Author: Amartya Sen
ISBN-10: 031242602X
ISBN-13: 9780312426026
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2006
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.56w x 0.76d
Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 05/01/2008 pg. 36
By Amartya Sen
xAmartya Sen was born in 1933 and grew up in Santiniketan and in Dhaka (now the capital of Bangladesh). As a student in India and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, he "seriously flirted, in turn, with Sanskrit, mathematics and physics before settling for the eccentric charms of economics," as he has written. Now Lamont University Professor at Harvard, he was Master of Trinity College from 1998 to 2004, and has taught at many other universities in Britain, the United States, and India. When Professor Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, he was the first Asian to be so honored.
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