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Paranjape, Makarand

Decolonization and development : Hind svaraj revisioned - New Delhi : Sage Publications, 1993 - 240 p.

A Trialogue as a Foreword / Ashis Nandy --
1. The Metaphysics of Dialogue --
2. 'En'titled Premises --
3. Culture and Colonization --
4. Decolonization or Svaraj? --
5. The Enemy Outside --
6. The Enemy Within-I --
7. The Enemy Within-II --
8. Defining India --
9. Defining the West --
10. Indo-Western Encounters --
11. India and the West: Terms and Conditions of Interaction --
12. The Role of the State --
13. Theories of Colonization and Decolonization --
14. Strategies for Resistance --
15. Strategies for Assimilation --
16. The Colonized as Colonizers and the Colonizers as Colonized --
17. From Svaraj to Sarvodaya: Decolonization to Development --
18. Versions of Development --
19. Population --
20. Food --
21. The Environment --
22. Science and Technology --
23. Inefficiency --
24. Communalism --
25. Education and Language --
26. The Women's Movement --
27. The State of the Nation --
28. Conclusion: Towards a World Culture.

Creates a forum for a neo-Ghandian perspective in debates on decolonization and development. This work defines India as a space for plurality and tradition which offers an alternative to the western ways. It asserts that decolonization means the protection and continuation of Indian ways of thinking and of perceiving and experiencing reality

ISBN: 9788170363422 817036342X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
India
Politics and government

Dewey Class. No.: 320.954 / PAR