What does it mean to be ‘Indian’? - Brossura

S.N. Balagangadhara; Sarika Rao

 
9781685097714: What does it mean to be ‘Indian’?
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ISBN 10: 1685097715 ISBN 13: 9781685097714
Casa editrice: Notion Press, 2021

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Why ask this question today? After all, a lot is written about India, her culture, her past, her society, the psychology and sociology of individuals and groups. Why is that not enough? It is because what we have learnt so far is either false or fragmentary. If Indian culture is not a slightly inferior, slightly idiosyncratic variant of Western culture, as the received view has it for a very long time, what else is it? Research into culture and cultural differences gives novel and surprising answers. Written for an intelligent but lay public, this book shares the results of 40 years of scientific investigations in the research programme Comparative Science of Cultures. It transcends the political distinction between ‘the right’ and ‘the left’ by looking deeper into ideas on human beings, society, culture, experience, the past, impact of colonialism etc. Today, the question ‘What does it mean to be ‘Indian’?’ is both important and difficult to answer.

Is there something ‘Indian’ about this culture that goes beyond the differences between Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs or Jains? What does it überhaupt mean to belong to Indian culture?

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Editore
Notion Press
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1685097715
ISBN 13 
9781685097714
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
214
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