The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism

By Ashis Nandy

Book Overview

This study contends that modern colonialism is successful not only because the ruling country subjugates through superior technical and economic resources, but also because the rulers propagate cultural subservience of the subject people. Exploring the myths, fantasies and psychological defenses that went into the colonial culture, particularly the polarities that shaped the colonial theory of progress, Nandy describes the Indian experience and shows how the Indians broke with traditional norms of Western culture to protect their vision of an alternative future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195622375
• ISBN13: 9780195622379
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 0.3" x 8.4"

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.