The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism

by Ashis Nandy

Book Overview

Political, economic, and cultural domination under colonialism has repeatedly been studied during the last hundred years. Breaking with the tradition, Ashis Nandy explores the ways in which colonialism damaged the colonizing societies themselves, and how the likes of Gandhi resisted their rulers in British India by building on the lifestyle, values, and psychology of ordinary Indians and by heeding dissenting voices from the West.

This edition,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198062176
• ISBN13: 9780198062172
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Very very interesting

This book cannot be read fast. I first heard of this philosopher on the French Cultural Radio in a program on Islam in India. If you know about Franz Fanon and other psycho-sociologists like Erik Fromm etc but you don't know about the consequences of colonization in the Sub-continent, this book is for you.