Peter Ronald Desouza (143 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents Preface Prologue by Peter Ronald deSouza Speaking of Gandhi?s death Not a view but a vision by Sadanand Menon Afterword by Tridip Suhrud In March of 1948 a group of Gandhi?s closest associatesled by Pandit Nehru Vinoba Bhave J B Kripalani Maulana Azad and Jayaprakash Narayan among others met at Sevagram to reflect and deliberate on Gandhi?s assassinationSixty years later in a contemporary and evocative response to that moving introspection a group of scholars thinkers and writers gathered at the Sabarmati Ashram to once again reflect on Gandhi?s death as absence and memoryThis book brings together these reflections in all their hesitation tentativeness openness and counter-factual agreement Spontaneous and engaging it raises some important questions what is it to speak of Gandhi?s death How do we understand the meaning of his assassination How did the new nation comprehend the nature of his absence Did his death burden us forever Or did it in fact allow the nation and the state to explore new directionsThe sublime photographs of Henri Cartier Bresson that accompany the text cover the story of the aftermath of Gandhi?s assassination and his funeral photographs that capture as Sadanand Menon puts it ?not the portrait of any man but the portrait of a nation in the deepest moment of its sorrow? Be it the brilliantly composed image of Jawaharlal Nehru on the gate of the Birla Ghar delivering his moving ?The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere? speech or the spontaneous rhythm of the crowds gathering around Gandhi?s funeral cortege moving through New Delhi?s Raj Path and Tilak Marg to the cremation site the images provide visual testimony to the silence and intensity of the eventSpeaking of Gandhi?s Death is a contemplation an unusual book of reflections reminiscent of the person and persona of the Mahatma 163 pp.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. Introduction: Indian Democracy in the Hall of Mirrors. Section I. Analytical Frames: 1.The Intellectual s Public Life: Living between Thought and Action. 2. Contemporising the Mahabharata. 3. Re-reading Hind Swaraj. 4. From Jekyll and Hyde to Ardhanarishwara : Can We Recalibrate the Way We Live? 5. Liberalisation Discourse and Natural Inequality. 6. The Idea of the Political . Section II: Aspirations of a Young Nation: 1. What would Azad have said to the Angel Now? 2. Institutional Visions and Sociological Imaginations: The Debate on Panchayati Raj. 3. Why Politics Needs the Ashram. 4. Jawaharlal Nehru University: The Incubator of Critical Minds. 5. India s Heart is in the Right Place. 6. Let us make Adam Pregnant. 7. Raja Dharma and Buddhi Dharma. 8. The Democratic Virtue of Unreason. 9. The Greatness of a Landmark Judgment. 10. The Indian Commonsense of Democracy. Section III: Anxieties of a Plural Democracy: 1. The Afterlife of the Nehruvian Legacy. 2. Too Early for an Audit. 3. Thirteen Days of Civic Education and a Death. 4. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Most Intolerant of Us All. 5. How Long can a Queue Hold? 6. A Journey from Nalanda to Patna. 7. Never Say Retire. 8. Loyalty, Voice and Exit. 9. Leadership and the Public Interest. 10. Modi and his Chakravyuha. 11. She Knew which Battles to Fight. 12. The Banality of Evil. 13. Matlabi Democracy. 14. The Incomplete Case of Aruna Shanbaug. 15. Two Tales of Forgiveness. 16. Matters of Faith Need no Proof. Section IV: Accommodations of a Layered Society: 1. Humiliation in a Crematorium. 2. Iconography for a Plural Nation. 3. Setting, Not Vetting and Betting. 4. Sensex and Sensibility. 5. An Alternative Ghar Vapasi Campaign. 6. The BJP and the Changing Party System in India. 7. So We are Brothers of the Books. 8. Through the Lens of a Constitutional Republic: The Case of the Controversial Textbook. 9. The Compelling Compromise. 10. Offensive Expression: Arguing for a Differential Response. Section V: Ambivalences of a Constitutional Polity. 1. Rahbar, Razhan and the Working of Indian Democracy. 2. The Larger Picture at Hriday Kunj. 3. Being Economical with the Truth. 4. Holidays on Holy Days? 5. Just a Handshake. 6. The Question of the Sealed Envelope. 7. A Passion for Justice. 8. Hanging Justice: A Play in Two Parts. 9. The Vulnerable Side of Suu Kyi. 10. Satire and Policing the Boundary of Free Expression. 11. Between Being Pragmatic and Being Principled. Index. A single mirror reflects the truth as it is but only from one perspective. A hall of mirrors , on the other hand, exposes the truth through overlapping reflections, with varying depths and from a wide range of perspectives. In this book, political scientist Peter Ronald deSouza places India at the centre of such a hall of mirrors. He reveals for the reader the layered nature of Indian democracy, one particular depth, one particular perspective at a time. In the Hall of Mirrors discusses the dynamics of democracy and the nature of the human condition in India through a range of multidisciplinary, analytical and methodological tools. It documents our achievements and failures, follies and humanity, through the fall and rise of competing ideologies. The essays here, written over the course of the past two decades, document the aspirations and anxieties of the Indian people, the accommodations that our plural society has made, and the uncertainties and ambivalences that remain as a result of this grand experiment of and in democracy. With this eclectic collection of his writings in journals and popular dailies, the author takes us through an array of issues facing us. At every turn and in every corner, he reflects on the resilience of India s democracy, the world s largest and most challenging. Students, scholars and the general reader interested in democracy, political science and contemporary India will find this book invaluable.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. The public intellectual in India is an endangered species. Should we care? In this well-argued book, Romila Thapar and others tell us why we should. Thapar begins by defining the critical role that such individuals play in our societies today. Collectively, they are the objective, fearless, constructive voice that asks the awkward questions when government, industry, religious leaders and other bulwarks of society stray from their roles of ensuring the proper functioning of a country whose hallmarks are (or should be) social and economic equality, justice for all, and the liberty to say, think and profess the fundamental requirements of good citizenship. Through the lens of history, philosophy, science, and politics, she shows us the key role enlightened thinkers and activists have played in India, Europe and elsewhere. Today, as the liberal space in India is threatened by religious fundamentalism, big business, and, worryingly, a government that appears to be tacitly (and sometimes overtly) encouraging the attack on freedom of expression, secular values and rational readings of history, there could be no book as timely as this one. With contributions from writers and scholars in the fields of philosophy, science, history, journalism and social activism, The Public Intellectual in India shows us why it is important to have independent voices to protect the underprivileged, ensure human rights and social justice, and watch over the smooth functioning of our liberal, secular democracy. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies. Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, Keywords for India brings together more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars to form a polyphonic collective. Their sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking of words, this book investigates the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, Keywords for India presents the world with many emancipatory memes from India.…

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Soft cover. Condition: New. This volume marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of the defining moments of Indian history. It examines the Emergency and its aftermath from diverse perspectives political, historical, legal, economic, philosophical, experiential and cultural, among others. Bringing together leading scholars and writers, it explores how the Emergency transformed Indian polity, and shaped law enforcement and penal practices, the media, student movements, judicial responses, subaltern politics and literary expression, and examines why analysis of the Emergency is still relevant to political discourse in India today. '. . . a probing and kaleidoscopic reassessment of the origins, . . . the book prompts us to reconsider the multiple dimensions and layers of a compacted historical period and the many frameworks that continue to influence our understanding of it. . . .' (Srinath Raghavan, author of Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India) 'Fifty years after India's first experiment with dictatorship, this remarkable book explores not only the multiple facets of the Emergency but also the resistance it generated. . . . A very well researched and in-depth analysis of a key moment of India's history.' (Christophe Jaffrelot, CERICNRS Senior Research Fellow, Sciences Po, Paris) 'This is the single most valuable, engaging, thoughtful and wide-ranging volume available on the Emergency. . . .' (Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Princeton University) '. . . some of our best minds come together to put together an arresting tableau of troubled memories, and curious associations and conflicted lessons learnt. . . .' (Harish Khare, former press advisor to Manmohan Singh and former editor of The Tribune).…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century. Book.

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Soft cover. Condition: New. Summary:"What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly context s . Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies. Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, Keywords for India brings together more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars to form a polyphonic collective. Their sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking of words, this book investigates the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, Keywords for India presents the world with many emancipatory memes from India."-- Provided by publisher.…

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