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 [...]

A discussion of how the large, impersonal Indian state has affected the lives of its citizens since Independence in 1947. It focuses on how the multiple nature of psychological identity in the sub-continent was affected by the imposition of a stridently secular ethos by the country's elites.[...]