Author: Rajni Kothari
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 268
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171678254
Description
This is a book on history - this is a book on politics - this is a book about how democracy can thrive. Yes, divergent ideas coalesce in Kothari's work. Simple and brilliant - like the man himself.
This is a book on history - this is a book on politics - this is a book about how democracy can thrive. Yes, divergent ideas coalesce in Kothari's work. Simple and brilliant - like the man himself.
A work that delineates the making of the mind of an intellectual wading through 'uneasy' patches and perturbing moments in these troubled times - yet growing with it all. Rajni Kothari's Memoirs which he calls the journey of my mind is not an autobiography; yet it accommodates much than that genre can offer. He tries to capture the idea of the nation as well as address a plethora of questions that have left his mind in a state of perennial interest.
Contents
Synoptic Overview
Journey's Unfolding : Intellectual Parameters
Journey's Unfolding : Academic Parameters
Early Soci8alization
1942-1947
1947: Personal Life and National Regeneration
Conceptualizing Indian Politics
Early Experience of Indian Reality
The Quickening Sixties and Beyond
Congress Nemesis and Crisis of Democracy (1967-1995)
emancipation and Democracy
Democracy, Globalization and Decentralization
The Post-Congress Polity: Rise of Coalition
Politics and of Grassroots Politics
Journey's Pursuit: Intellectual Thresholds, Key Individuals
Moving Toward Conclusions
'The Keeper of My Conscience'
Index