Full name: The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

Author: Amartya Sen Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Essays Culture: India Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312426026 031242602X

In 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.). Similar books: India by Patrick French The Mughal Throne by Abraham Eraly The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru India and the Mughal Dynasty by Valerie Berinstain A New History of India by Stanley Wolpert India by Shashi Tharoor India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha Plain Tales from the Raj by Charles Allen The Story of India by Michael Wood Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann The Wonder That Was India by A. L. Basham The Great Moghuls by Bamber Gascoigne Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins Early India by Romila Thapar Identity and Violence by Amartya Sen The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin The Purpose of the Past by Gordon S. Wood Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco