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Table of Contents
Introduction:
A Dialogue with Ashis Nandy
Cultural Frames for Social Transformation: A Credo;
Sati: A Nineteenth-Century Tale of Women, Violence and Protest ;
Final Encounter: The Politics of the Assassination of Gandhi;
Culture, State and the Rediscovery of Indian Politics;
The Twilight of Certitudes: Secularism, Hindu, Nationalism and Other Masks of Deculturation;
A Report on the Present State of Health of the Gods and Goddesses in South Asia;
The Illegitimacy of Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore and the Politics of Self;
The Fantastic India-Pakistan Battle: Or the Future of the Past in South Asia;
Satyajit Ray's Secret Guide to Exquisite Murders: Creativity, Social Criticism, and the Partitioning of the Self;
Science, Authoritarianism and Culture: On the Scope and Limits of Isolation outside the Clinic;
Culture, Voice and Development: A Primer for the Unsuspecting;
Towards an Alternative Politics of Psychology;
The Savage Freud: The First Non-Western Psychoanalyst and the Politics of Secret Selves in Colonial India;
The Scope and Limits of Dissent: India's First Environmentalist and His Critique of the DVC;
Reconstructing Childhood: A Critique of the Ideology of Adulthood;
Towards a Third World Utopia;
Shamans, Savages and the Wilderness: On the Audibility of Dissent and the Future of Civilizations;
Index