Memoirs -  Uneasy is the Life of the Mind

Memoirs - Uneasy is the Life of the Mind

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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