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The argumentative Indian: Writings On Indian History, Culture and Identity
[Paperback - 2006]
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Publisher: Picador Usa | ISBN: 9780312426026 | Pages: 409
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In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India s intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian history and culture, and a tempered analysis of the highly charged disputes surrounding these subjects--the nature of Hindu traditions, Indian identity, the country s huge social and economic disparities, and its current place in the world" (Sunil Khilnani, Financial Times, U.K.).

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University, and also Professor of Economics and Philosophy there. Previously he was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford and, earlier, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, Delhi University and Jadavpur University. His publications include Collective Choice and Social Welfare; Choice; Welfare and Measurement; Poverty and Famines; On Ethics and Economics; and Inequality Reexamined, among others. He is past president of the Econometric Society, the International Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association and the American Economic Association.

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