Ashis Nandy

A Life in Dissent

Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi

A book on one of the most popular names in cultural studies and social sciences worldwide
The first work to bring together a diverse range of insights on Nandy's life and work
Contributors, covering different subjects and countries, are names of global acclaim
Includes an interview full of information on Nandy never known before

Ashis Nandy

A Life in Dissent

Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi

Description

This volume is an adda of great minds, spanning generations and multiple nationalities. While one discusses creativity and aesthetics through Indian classical music, another recounts the pleasure of a simple walk. Another questions how it would be if Rabindranath Tagore lived in the twenty-first century; yet another, how 'cool' Indians are or might be in the future. Subjects as far apart as war and solitude find space in these musings. Through these lively engagements emerge key insights into the ideas, writings, and life of one of the foremost intellectuals of our time in Indian and global scholarship, thought, and dissent-Ashis Nandy.

Ashis Nandy

A Life in Dissent

Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi

Introduction
1. Dipesh Chakrabarti , 'Dear Ashis Da: A Fan Letter on Your 80th'
2. Fred Dallmayr, 'At the Edge of Selfhood'
3. Ramin Jahanbegloo, 'A Life in Dissent'
4. John Cash, 'The Intimate Friend-Enemy'
5. Tridip Suhrud, 'A Tale about Hyper-Masculine Selves'
6. Philip Darby, 'When Ashis Nandy's Myths Meet those of Westphalia'
7. Arindam Chakrabarty, 'The Future of Coolness'
8. Ziauddin Sardar, 'The A, B, C, D (& E) of Ashis Nandy'
9. Rudolf C. Heredia, 'Celebrating the Organic Intellectual'
10. Richard Falk, 'Master of Contrarian Reason'
11. Lydia H. Liu, 'The Gift of the Living Past'
12. A. Raghuramaraju, 'Ashis Nandy's Interpretations of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi'
13. C. Douglas Lummis, 'Just War Is Hell'
14. T.N. Madan, 'The Real and the Imagined'
15. David L. Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah, 'Non Player Dialectics'
16. D. Venkat Rao, 'The Cognitive Storyteller'
17. Aseem Srivastava, 'Dial “M” for Modernity'
18. Shiv Visvanathan, 'Walking as Philosophy'
19. T.M. Krishna, 'Artist Alone'
20. Ananya Vajpeyi,' A Gift of Song'
Ananya Vajpeyi and Ramin Jahanbegloo, 'In Conversation with Ashis Nandy'
Manish Nandy, 'Ashis Nandy, My Brother'
About the Editors

Ashis Nandy

A Life in Dissent

Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi

Author Information

Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor, Vice Dean and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, and Edited by Ananya Vajpeyi, Dr, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher, currently vice-dean and executive director at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. Ananya Vajpeyi is an intellectual historian, currently a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.

Contributors:

1. Dipesh Chakrabarti
2. Fred Dallmayr
3. Ramin Jahanbegloo
4. John Cash
5. Tridip Suhrud
6. Philip Darby
7. Arindam Chakrabarty
8. Ziauddin Sardar
9. Rudolf C. Heredia
10. Richard Falk
11. Lydia H. Liu
12. A. Raghuramaraju
13. C. Douglas Lummis
14. T.N. Madan
15. David L. Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah
16. D. Venkat Rao
17. Aseem Srivastava
18. Shiv Visvanathan
19. T.M. Krishna
20. Ananya Vajpeyi
21. Manish Nandy

Ashis Nandy

A Life in Dissent

Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi

Reviews and Awards

"The book would be very important since few scholarly assessments of Ashis Nandy's work exist ... One of the most original social scientists in India, Ashis Nandy's writings have contributed enormously towards evolving serious intellectual conversations on India. His influence has been justly great in academia as well as in discussions of development and modernity outside university spaces. The range of essays in the proposed volume is rich and impressive ... The list of contributors, which includes Indians as well as non-Indians, clarify the civilizational nature of Nandy's work. And, by showing how his work can be pushed in new directions, many of the submitted essays invite others to evolve a creative relationship with his work." - Chandan Gowda, Professor of Sociology, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru

"I welcome the idea of putting such a volume together, with a bunch of excellent essays drawn from across a wide range of disciplines inspired and indebted to the life work of Ashish Nandy ... one of the most remarkable postcolonial thinkers whose concerns, provocations and analyses have shaped much of modern social science scholarship in India and elsewhere. The consistent synthesis of brilliant arguments, unsettling insights and eclectic conceptual geographies make it necessary to address Nandy's intellectual universe in a comprehensive way and the proposed volume is precisely such an effort." - Rajarshi Dasgupta, Assistant Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi