The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism

Political, economic, and cultural domination under colonialism has repeatedly been studied during the last hundred years. Breaking with the tradition, Ashis Nandy explores the ways in which colonialism damaged the colonizing societies themselves, and how the likes of Gandhi resisted their rulers in British India by building on the lifestyle, values, and psychology of ordinary Indians and by heeding dissenting voices from the West.

This edition, with a new postscript by the author, commemorates twenty-five years of the book being in print. The book will appeal to general readers as well as students and scholars of sociology, history, psychology, and cultural studies.

Author: Ashis Nandy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/15/2009
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780198062172
ISBN10: 0198062176
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- History | Social History
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | General

About the Author

Ashis Nandy was a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.