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Ashis Nandy





Published on Feb 14, 2014

Ashis Nandy (born 1937) is an Indian political psychologist, a social
theorist, and a contemporary cultural and political critic.
 


Ashis Nandy's interests have embraced scientific creativity, future
studies, post-developmental and post-secular visions, cities of the
mind, myths of nation-states, and alternatives.

He joins UC Santa
Barbara's Mark Juergensmeyer in conversation. 
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Nandy, Ashis

Biography

Photo of Ashis in 2007

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Biography



 Ashis Nandy is a prolific political psychologist, sociologist and
cultural critic. Nandy has also coauthored a number of human rights
reports and is active in movements for peace, alternative sciences and
technologies, and cultural survival. He is a member of the Executive
Councils of the World Future Studies Federation, the Commonwealth Human
Rights Initiative, the International Network for Cultural Alternatives
to Development, and the People’s Union for Civil Liberties. Nandy has
been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., a
Charles Wallace Fellow at the University of Hull, and a Fellow of the
Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
He held the first UNESCO Chair at the Center for European Studies,
University of Trier, in 1994.











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Theories of Oppression and Another Dialogue of Cultures

Vol - XLVII No. 30, July 28, 2012 | Ashis Nandy



One of the fi rst tasks of social knowledge in India today is
to return agency to the communities at the receiving end of the system.
We can do so only if we take seriously the various cultural modes of
self-expression of these communities. Democracy can be a slow-moving,
inept, obtuse tool in the case of small communities. But it still
remains a powerful enabling device for those not pushed to the margin of
desperation. Instead of shedding copious tears for the poverty and the
exploitation of the dalits and adivasis, the time has come to celebrate
their self-affi rmation and the enormous diversity of cultural,
ecological, artistic, technological and intellectual riches they, as
communities, have nurtured over the millennia.

The Idea of Happiness

Vol - XLVII No. 02, January 14, 2012 | Ashis Nandy



The idea of happiness has changed. It has emerged as a
measurable, autonomous, manageable, psychological variable in the global
middle-class culture. The self-conscious, determined search for
happiness has gradually transformed the idea of happiness from a mental
state to an objectified quality of life that can be attained the way an
athlete after training under specialists and going through a strict
regimen of exercises and diet wins a medal in a track meet. Might it be
that the sense of well-being of a mentally healthy person shows its
robustness by being able to live with some amount of unhappiness and
what is commonly seen as ill-health?

Nationalism, Genuine and Spurious

Vol - XLI No. 32, August 12, 2006 | Ashis Nandy



Nationalism is not patriotism. Nationalism is an ideology and
is configured in human personality the way other ideologies are. It rode
piggyback into the Afro-Asian world in colonial times as an adjunct of
the concept of nation state. Patriotism is a non-specific sentiment
centring on a form of territoriality that humans share with a number of
other species. This unacknowledged difference is central to the spirited
critique of conventional nationalism by Mohandas Gandhi, India's Father
of the Nation, and the total rejection of nationalism by Rabindranath
Tagore, India's national poet.

Sati in Kaliyuga

Vol - XXIII No. 38, September 17, 1988 | Ashis Nandy



NEARLY twenty years ago in 1968, at the Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, Simla, I made my first public presentation on sati. It
was subsequently delivered as a Rammohan Roy Bicentennial Lecture at the
Nehru Museum and Library, and further revised for my book, At the Edge
of Psychology.1 A few years later, an empirical refutation of my
position was attempted as part of a broader critique by Sanjukta Gupta
and Richard Gombrich. The critique and my reply to it was published in a
symposium.2 Since then I have on and off spoken in the public fora on
sati and, also, tried to keep in touch with social activists worried
about the occasional instances of sati in the country. At least one
group of them have used my essay as a text. After the death of Roop
Kanwar at Deorala, Rajasthan, on September 4, 1987, I have published two
briefer essays, not so much on sati as on modern India's present
response to it.3 During the twenty years, in the context of sati. I did
not bear of Imrana Quadeer, Zoya Hasan, Sujata Patel and Krishna Kumar.4
It is possible that none of them was born early enough for us to hear
of his or her interest in sati, and that all of them have reached
adulthood at about the time Roop Kanwar died. In that case I plead
guilty to the charge of suspecting that all these wor-" thies have
jumped on the band wagon of the urban, decultured Indian bourgeoisie to
win some easy applause at bargain price. Nevertheless, the fact remains
that they have systematically distorted my position on sati. In case
your readers have not read my essays on sati but only the diatribes
against me, I wish to state the following:

Culture, State and the Rediscovery of Indian Politics

Vol - XIX No. 49, December 08, 1984 | Ashis Nandy



Culture, State and the Rediscovery of Indian Politics Ashis
Nandy The relationship between culture and the state may be viewed in
two ways. One is to look for the means by which culture can be made to
contribute to the sustenance and growth of the state. Elements of
culture which help strengthen the state are seen as good; those which do
not help the proper functioning of the state or hinder its growth are
seen as defective. The second way of looking at the relationship between
culture and the state is to do so from the stand-point of culture. This
approach may regard the state as a protector, an internal critic or a
thermostat for culture, but not as the ultimate pace-setter for the
society's way of life.

Entrepreneurial Cultures and Entrepreneurial Men

Vol - VIII No. 47, November 24, 1973 | Ashis Nandy



This paper examines, on an exploratory basis, some of the
psychological and social correlates of entrepreneurship in an urban
community in West Bengal and compares two caste groups within the
community differing in entrepreneurial success, modernity and
traditional social status

The Bomb, the NPT and Indian Elites

Vol - VII No. 31-32-33, August 05, 1972 | Ashis Nandy



Ashis Nandy This paper examines the attitudes of Indian
decision-makers to a nuclear armoury for the country. It is based on
interviews of a purposive sample of strategic, emerging and intermediate
elites. Though the sample is not representative in any strict sense, it
covers a wide variety of critical men: in terms of ideology, party
affiliation, strategic location in the decision-making structure and
capacity to influence opinion presently as welt as in the future. In
sum, the sample includes at least a majority of those whose Voices count


Selected Publications

Books

  • Nandy, Ashis. Alternative Sciences: Creativity and Authenticity in Two Indian Scientists. New Delhi: Allied, 1980. Delhi: Oxford UP, 1995.
  • —. At the Edge of Psychology: Essays in Politics and Culture. Delhi: Oxford UP, 1980. Delhi: Oxford UP, 1990.
  • —. Barbaric Others: A Manifesto on Western Racism. Merryl Wyn Davies, Ashis Nandy, and Ziauddin Sardar. London; Boulder, CO: Pluto Press, 1993.
  • —. The Blinded Eye: Five Hundred Years of Christopher Columbus. Claude Alvares, Ziauddin Sardar, and Ashis Nandy. New York: Apex, 1994.
  • —. Creating a Nationality: the Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self. Eds. Ashis Nandy, Shikha Trivedy, and Achyut Yagnick. Delhi; Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.
  • —. The Illegitimacy of Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore and the Politics of Self. Delhi; Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.
  • —. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism. Delhi: Oxford UP, 1983. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988.
  • —. The Multiverse of Democracy: Essays in Honour of Rajni Kothari. Eds. D.L. Sheth and Ashis Nandy. New Delhi; London: Sage, 1996.
  • —. The New Vaisyas: Entrepreneurial Opportunity and Response in an Indian City. Raymond Lee Owens and Ashis Nandy. Bombay: Allied, 1977. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic P, 1978.
  • —. The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves. Delhi; London: Oxford UP, 1995. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1995.

  • —. Science, Hegemony and Violence: A Requiem for Modernity. Ed. Ashis Nandy. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University, 1988. Delhi: Oxford UP, 1990.
  • —. The Tao of Cricket: On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games. New Delhi; New York: Viking, 1989. New Delhi; New York: Penguin, 1989.
  • —. Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness. Delhi; New York: Oxford UP, 1987. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.

Essays

  • Nandy, Ashis. “Bearing Witness to the Future.” Futures 28.6-7 (Aug. 1996): 636-39.
  • —. “The Fate of the Ideology of the State in India.” The Challenge in South Asia: Development, Democracy and Regional Cooperation. Eds. Poona Wignaraja and Akmal Hussain. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1989.
  • —. ”Futures Studies: Pluralizing Human Destiny.” Futures 25.4 (May 1993): 464-65.
  • —. ”History’s Forgotten Doubles.” History & Theory 34.2 (1995):44-66.
  • —. ”The Political Culture of the Indian State.” Daedalus 118.4 (Fall 1989): 1-26.
  • —. ”The Psychology of Colonialism: Sex, Age, and Ideology in British India.” Psychiatry 45 (Aug. 1982): 197-218.
  • —. ”Satyajit Ray’s Secret Guide.” East-West Film Journal 4.2 (June 1990): 14-37.
  • —. ”Tagore and the Tiger of Nationalism.” Times of India. 4 Sept.1994.
  • —. ”Towards an Alternative Politics of Psychology.” International Social Science Journal 35.2 (1983): 323-38.
Author: Michele Crescenzo, c. 1997
 

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