The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under ColonialismThis study contends that modern colonialism is successful not only because the ruling country subjugates through superior technical and economic resources, but also because the rulers propagate cultural subservience of the subject people. Exploring the myths, fantasies and psychological defenses that went into the colonial culture, particularly the polarities that shaped the colonial theory of progress, Nandy describes the Indian experience and shows how the Indians broke with traditional norms of Western culture to protect their vision of an alternative future. |
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adult aggression Aimé Césaire alternative androgyny Angus Wilson Ashis Nandy Ashram awareness Bankimchandra became Bengali Brāhmaṇ Britain British C. F. Andrews Calcutta century childhood Christianity civilization cognitive colo colonial culture concept consciousness context cosmology counterplayer creative critical defeat defiance Delhi dominant E. M. Forster Edmund Wilson England English essay European Fanon feminine Frantz Fanon Gandhi George Orwell Hindu Hinduism human hyper-masculinity idea ideology imperialism Indian culture Indian society Indian traditions Kipling Kipling's Kṛṣṇa Ksatriyahood language legitimacy Liberator living London Madhusudan Mahābhārata martial masculinity mind modern West moral mother myths Nandy nationalism nialism non-modern non-West oppression Orient Orwell Oscar Wilde Passage to India past personality political primitivism protect psychological puruşatva Rāmāyaṇa Rammohun rejected relationship response Rudyard rule rulers sense sexual social spiritual Sri Aurobindo stereotypes superior survival theory tion traditional Indian tried University V. S. Naipaul victims violence Vivekananda Western Wilde's world view York