• ISBN13: 9780195667936
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: May 16, 2003
• Pages: 584
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 540 grams

This volume brings together three significant works of Ashis Nandy - Alternative Sciences, The Illegitimacy of Nationalism, and The Savage Freud . It is essential reading for social and political scientists, and all those interested in the complexities of Indian politics and culture.

Ashis Nandy began his career as a clinical psychologist and sociologist and during the last three decades has travelled through some of the most unfamiliar territories of social knowledge, such as future studies, post-developmental visions, cultural alternatives, and the politics of knowledge. He has participated in various human rights initiatives and in monitoring elections in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Nandy is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, and lives in Delhi.