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Ashis Nandy | |
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 Nandy receiving Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2007, Japan | |
| Born | 13 May 1937[1] Bhagalpur, Bihar, British India |
| Occupation | political psychologist, social theorist, Former Director of CSDS Delhi |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Nagpur University (M.A.) Gujarat University (PhD) |
| Notable works | Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias Alternative Sciences: Creativity and Authenticity in Two Indian Scientists The Tao of Cricket: On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in Indian Imagination Time Warps Romance of the State and the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics |
| Spouse | Uma Nandy |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Pritish Nandy (brother) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Role of a Valued Object in Personality: a Clinical Psychological Study of Money (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | P. H. Prabhu |
| Academic work | |
| Doctoral students | Tridip Suhrud |
Ashis Nandy (born 13 May 1937) is an Indian political psychologist, social theorist, futurist and critic. A trained clinical psychologist, Nandy has provided theoretical critiques of European colonialism, development, modernity, secularism, Hindutva, science, technology, nuclearism, cosmopolitanism, and utopia. He has conceptualised cosmopolitanism and critical traditionalism. Nandy has written an historical profile of India's commercial cinema as well as critiques of state and violence.
He was Senior Fellow and Former Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) for several years. Currently, he is a Senior Honorary Fellow at the CSDS apart from being the Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, New Delhi.[2][3][4]
Nandy received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2007.[5] In 2008 he appeared on the list of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll of the Foreign Policy magazine, published by The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[6] He received the Hans Killian Award in 2019.[7]
- ^ Ashis Nandy - Laureates Fukuoka Prize
- ^ Ashis Nandy Emory University.
- ^ Ashis Nandy – Senior Honorary Fellow. Archived 4 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) website.
- ^ "Modernity, Frameworks of Knowledge, and the Ecological Survival of Plurality". vlal.bol.ucla.edu. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ^ "Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize – Laureates for 2007". The Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2008.
- ^ "Top 100 Public Intellectuals". Foreign Policy. May 2008. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2008.
- ^ "Ashis Nandy". www.csds.in. Retrieved 20 May 2024.