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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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09 Jul 2005 04:10:58 AM |
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OT: Pankaj Mishra |
In defence of reason
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1523498,00.html
Pankaj Mishra applauds Amartya Sen's cosmopolitan view of India's
cultural and political history in The Argumentative Indian
Saturday July 9, 2005
The Guardian
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture, and
Identity by Amartya Sen
432pp, Allen Lane, =A325
EP Thompson once wrote that since "all the convergent influences of the
world" - Hindu, Muslim, Christian, secular, Stalinist, liberal, Maoist,
democratic socialist, Gandhian - run through India, "there is not a
thought that is being thought in the west or east that is not active in
some Indian mind". This sounds true, and indeed there have been
Indians, such as the polymath Bengali writer Nirad Chaudhuri, who
appeared to hold in their minds almost all of the important thoughts
thought in the west or east. But holding them is, perhaps, not enough,
or is only a tiresome form of pedantry, as Chaudhuri himself often
proved. It is certainly rare to see them as elegantly synthesised as
they are in the cosmopolitan mind of Amartya Sen.
Pankaj Mishra
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Amartya Sen
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India
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