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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

123 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 doubles1995557
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 Imagination2007290
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 silence1985168
Shamans, savages and the wilderness: On the audibility of dissent and the future of civilizations1989149
The political culture of the Indian state1989131
Barbaric others: A manifesto on Western racism1994124
Cultural frames for social transformation: A credo1987119
The psychology of colonialism : Sex, age, and ideology in British India1982en109
Modern medicine and its non-modern critics: A study in discourse1990100
From outside the imperium: Gandhi's cultural critique of the 'West'198194
Time warps: The insistent politics of silent and evasive pasts2003en93
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 Cochin200074
Culture, voice and development: A primer for the unsuspecting199462
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 deculturation199858
Talking India: Ashis Nandy in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo200655
The intimate enemy: The psychology of colonialism1988en53
Culture, state and the rediscovery of Indian politics198452
Nationalism, genuine and spurious: Mourning two early post-nationalist strains200645
Towards a third world utopia2023en43
The invisible holocaust and the journey as an exodus: the poisoned village and the stranger city199940
The Seville Statement on Violence.199039
A report on the present state of health of the gods and goddesses in South Asia200133
Humiliation: The politics and cultural psychology of the limits of human degradation201032
Memory work201531
Development and violence199530
Theories of oppression and another dialogue of cultures201230
Telling the story of communal conflicts in South Asia: interim report on a personal search for defining myths200228
TheIntimate Enemy: Loss andRecovery ofSelf under Colonialism1983en27
The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of1983en26
The making and unmaking of political cultures in India197325
Oppression and human liberation: Toward a third world utopia2019en23
The traditions of technology197922
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
Sati in Kaliyuga198817
The beautiful, expanding future of poverty: Popular economics as a psychological defence2004en16
Dams and dissent: India's first modern environmental activist and his critique of the DVC project200115
A post-colonial view of the East and the West198213
The psychology of colonialism : Sex, age and ideology in British India2020en13