Book description
India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly
different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast
of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an
illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist
Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in
the light of its long argumentative tradition.
The understanding and use of this rich argumentative tradition are
critically important, Sen argues, for the success of India's
democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of
inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the
pursuit of sub-continental peace.
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He won the
Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge 1998-2004. His most recent books are Development as Freedom
and Rationality as Freedom. His books have been translated into thirty
languages.
