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Ashis Nandy

1937-·11,858 citations

Ashis Nandy is an Indian political psychologist and social theorist who served as the Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi. He is a prominent critic of Western modernity and secularism, best known for his psychoanalytic analysis of colonialism in 'The Intimate Enemy' (1983) and his advocacy for indigenous knowledge systems.

Works

132 works
TitleYearLanguageCitations▼
The intimate enemy: Loss and recovery of self under colonialism1988en6,415
The politics of secularism and the recovery of religious tolerance1988en883
Traditions , tyranny , and utopias : Essays in the politics of awareness1987en800
Science, hegemony and violence: A requiem for modernity1988en704
History's forgotten doubles1995—557
Alternative sciences : Creativity and authenticity in two Indian scientists1995en296
An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and Othe Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination2007—290
Time warps: Silent and evasive pasts in Indian politics and religion2002en221
Reconstructing childhood: A critique of the ideology of adulthood1984en209
Violence, victimhood, and the language of silence1985—168
Shamans, savages and the wilderness: On the audibility of dissent and the future of civilizations1989—149
The political culture of the Indian state1989—131
Barbaric others: A manifesto on Western racism1994—124
Cultural frames for social transformation: A credo1987—119
The psychology of colonialism : Sex, age, and ideology in British India1982en109
Modern medicine and its non-modern critics: A study in discourse1990—100
From outside the imperium: Gandhi's cultural critique of the 'West'1981—94
Time warps: The insistent politics of silent and evasive pasts2003en93
The twilight of certitudes: Secularism, Hindu nationalism, and other masks of deculturation1997—86
The beautiful, expanding future of poverty: Popular economics as a psychological defense2002en85
A new cosmopolitanism: Toward a dialogue of Asian civilizations2005en84
Time travel to a possible self: searching for the alternative cosmopolitanism of Cochin2000—74
Culture, voice and development: A primer for the unsuspecting1994—62
The savage Freud: The first non-Western psychoanalyst and the politics of secret selves in colonial India1995en60
The twilight of certitudes: secularism, Hindu nationalism and other masks of deculturation1998—58
Talking India: Ashis Nandy in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo2006—55
The intimate enemy: The psychology of colonialism1988en53
Culture, state and the rediscovery of Indian politics1984—52
Nationalism, genuine and spurious: Mourning two early post-nationalist strains2006—45
Towards a third world utopia2023en43
The invisible holocaust and the journey as an exodus: the poisoned village and the stranger city1999—40
The Seville Statement on Violence.1990—39
A report on the present state of health of the gods and goddesses in South Asia2001—33
Humiliation: The politics and cultural psychology of the limits of human degradation2010—32
Memory work2015—31
Development and violence1995—30
Theories of oppression and another dialogue of cultures2012—30
Towards an alternative politics of psychology.1983—29
Telling the story of communal conflicts in South Asia: interim report on a personal search for defining myths2002—28
TheIntimate Enemy: Loss andRecovery ofSelf under Colonialism1983en27
The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of1983en26
The making and unmaking of political cultures in India1973—25
Oppression and human liberation: Towards a third world Utopia1978—24
Oppression and human liberation: Toward a third world utopia2019en23
The traditions of technology1979—22
A disowned father of the nation in India: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and the demonic and the seductive in Indian nationalism2014en22
The demonic and the seductive in religious nationalism: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and the rites of exorcism in secularizing South Asia2009en20
El enemigo íntimo: pérdida y recuperación del yo bajo el colonialismo2021entr.19
Defiance and conformity in science : the identity of Jagadis Chandra Bose1972—18
Sati in Kaliyuga1988—17