This book examines the myth of the journey from the village to the city and shows how this myth and the changes it has undergone provide rich insight on India's ambivalent affair with the modern city. The first section looks at the vicissitudes of the metaphor of journey, especially the imagination of the hero as it intersects with the imagined city. The next two sections profile various heroes as they negotiate the transitions from the village to the city and back to the village. The final section focuses on the psychopathological journey from a poisoned village into a self-annihilating city, and the narrative draws parallels with the violence in 1946-8, the period which saw the birth of modern India and Pakistan.
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Ashis Nandy is at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
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The nineteenth century in Europe was an age of arrogance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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remembered village, archetypal hero, enemy community, popular cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Asia, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, Mrinal Sen, New York, Ashis Nandy, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Akaler Sandhane, Meenakshi Verma, New Theatres, Pramathesh Barua, Satyajit Ray, Chidananda Dasgupta, East Bengal, Pramathesh Chandra Barua, Bhan Singh, Pather Panchali, Rabindranath Tagore, Raj Kapoor, The Maverick Maestro, Jagte Raho, Nawab Bibi, Ritwik Ghatak, Shyam Benegal, Anantha Murthy New!
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- The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique (Morningside Series) by Martin S. Bergmann on page 105, and page 108
- The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves by Ashis Nandy on page 25, and page 66
- Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman on page 111
- Resisting Regimes by Shail Mayaram on page 119
- In Search of Famine by Mrninal Sen on page 88
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- Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis by John Clement Ball in Back Matter
- Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism (Cross/Cultures 82) by Peter Morey; Alex Tickell (Editors) in Front Matter
- Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation by Robert Stam on page 330
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