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The argumentative Indian writings on Indian history, culture and identity

India is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime study of his country's history and culture to suggest the ways we must understand India today in the light of its rich, long argumentative tradition. The millenia-old texts and interpretations of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, agnostic, and atheistic Indian thought demonstrate, Sen reminds us, ancient and well-respected rules for conducting debates and disputations, and for appreciating not only the richness of India's diversity but its need for toleration. Though Westerners have often perceived India as a place of endless spirituality and unreasoning mysticism, he underlines its long tradition of skepticism and reasoning, not to mention its secular contributions to mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine, and political economy.

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  • "Writings on Indian history, culture, and identity"@en
  • "慣於爭鳴的印度人"
  • "Argumentative Indian"
  • "Bharateeya artha tantra, itihas aura sanskriti"
  • "Guan yu zheng ming de yin du ren"
  • "Writings on Indian culture, history and identity"

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  • "Comment l'Inde, malgré ses disparités, peut-elle former une communauté cohérente ? Parcours à travers l'économie, la société et la politique indiennes s'inscrivant dans une vaste réflexion sur les forces de la culture et de la pensée indiennes face à la modernité. Parmi les sujets abordés : la diaspora indienne, les traditions, la place des femmes, la bombe atomique, les rapports avec la Chine..."
  • "Articles on Indian history, culture, and identity."
  • "India is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime study of his country's history and culture to suggest the ways we must understand India today in the light of its rich, long argumentative tradition. The millenia-old texts and interpretations of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, agnostic, and atheistic Indian thought demonstrate, Sen reminds us, ancient and well-respected rules for conducting debates and disputations, and for appreciating not only the richness of India's diversity but its need for toleration. Though Westerners have often perceived India as a place of endless spirituality and unreasoning mysticism, he underlines its long tradition of skepticism and reasoning, not to mention its secular contributions to mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine, and political economy."
  • "India is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime study of his country's history and culture to suggest the ways we must understand India today in the light of its rich, long argumentative tradition. The millenia-old texts and interpretations of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, agnostic, and atheistic Indian thought demonstrate, Sen reminds us, ancient and well-respected rules for conducting debates and disputations, and for appreciating not only the richness of India's diversity but its need for toleration. Though Westerners have often perceived India as a place of endless spirituality and unreasoning mysticism, he underlines its long tradition of skepticism and reasoning, not to mention its secular contributions to mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine, and political economy."@en
  • "A Nobel Laureate offers a dazzling new book about his native country India is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime study of his country's history and culture to suggest the ways we must understand India today in the light of its rich, long argumentative tradition. The millenia-old texts and interpretations of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, agnostic, and atheistic Indian thought demonstrate, Sen reminds us, ancient and well-respected rules for conducting debates and disputations, and for appreciating not only the richness of India's diversity but its need for toleration. Though Westerners have often perceived India as a place of endless spirituality and unreasoning mysticism, he underlines its long tradition of skepticism and reasoning, not to mention its secular contributions to mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine, and political economy. Sen discusses many aspects of India's rich intellectual and political heritage, including philosophies of governance from Kautilya's and Ashoka's in the fourth and third centuries BCE to Akbar's in the 1590s; the history and continuing relevance of India's relations with China more than a millennium ago; its old and well-organized calendars; the films of Satyajit Ray and the debates between Gandhi and the visionary poet Tagore about India's past, present, and future. The success of India's democracy and defense of its secular politics depend, Sen argues, on understanding and using this rich argumentative tradition. It is also essential to removing the inequalities (whether of caste, gender, class, or community) that mar Indian life, to stabilizing the now precarious conditions of a nuclear-armed subcontinent, and to correcting what Sen calls the politics of deprivation. His invaluable book concludes with his meditations on pluralism, on dialogue and dialectics in the pursuit of social justice, and on the nature of the Indian identity."@en
  • "India is a large and very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. This book brings together a selection of writings about his native country by the Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen."

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  • "History"
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  • "Aufsatzsammlung"
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  • "Hao si bian de Yindu ren"
  • "The argumentative Indian writings on Indian history, culture and identity"@en
  • "The argumentative Indian writings on Indian history, culture and identity"
  • "The argumentative Indian : writings on Indian history, culture and identity"
  • "The argumentative Indian : writings on Indian history, culture and identity"@en
  • "L' altra India la tradizione razionalista e scettica alle radici della cultura indiana"
  • "Vāda-saṃvādapriya Bhāratīya : Bhāratīya itihāsa, saṃskr̥tī āṇi asmitā yāñcā paricaya karūna deṇārā lekhasaṅgraha"
  • "好思辯的印度人 = The argumentative Indian : writings on Indian history, culture and identity"
  • "The argumentative Indian : writings on Indian history, culture, and identity"@en
  • "The argumentative Indian : writings on Indian history, culture, and identity"
  • "The argumentative Indian"
  • "L'altra India : la tradizione razionalista e scetticista alle radici della cultura indiana"
  • "Tarkapriya Bhāratīya : Bhāratīya itihāsa, saṃskr̥ti o pariciti saṃkrānta prabandhamālā"
  • "The argumentative Indian writings on Indian history, culture, and identity"
  • "L'altra India : la tradizione razionalista e scettica alle radici della cultura indiana"
  • "L'altra India : la tradizione razionalista e scettica alle radici della cultura indiana"@it
  • "Hao si bian de Yindu ren = The argumentative Indian : writings on Indian history, culture and identity"
  • "L'Inde : histoire, culture et identité"
  • "Hao si bian de yin du ren"
  • "The argumentative indian : writings on Indian history, culture and identity"
  • "The argumentative indian writings on indian history, culture and identity"@en
  • "Bhāratīya Arthasantra itihāsa aura saṃskr̥ti"
  • "The Argumentative Indian : writings on Indian history, culture and identity"
  • "好思辯的印度人"

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