The Argumentative Indian

Jan 12, 2025 6:51 PM

Author:Amartya Sen

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.

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Intriguing and entertaining...McKenna makes an impassioned case for re-gaying Wilde

—— The Times

A groundbreaking new biography of our greatest queer martyr

—— Observer

It cannot be recommended too highly. Extraordinary, intensely passionate and quite beautiful

—— Manchester Evening News

This is by far and away the best biography of Oscar Wilde to date

—— John McRae, Professor of Literature

A bold book

—— The Guardian

Extraordinary, intensely passionate and quite beautiful

—— The Manchester Evening News

A bustling, revealing and downright moving portrayal of thwarted genius

—— Attitude

Neil McKenna's book is the most important one to have been written about Wilde for many years

—— Irish Independent

McKenna’s book offers an entertaining and fascinating (sometimes jaw-dropping) insight into Victorian homosexual practices. He is outstanding

—— The Observer

A sensational new biography

—— Bent Magazine

A brilliant reconstruction of Oscar Wilde's dynamic sex life, brilliantly written and meticulously researched

—— Bent Magazine

Where this biography really excels is in recreating the fevered atmosphere of the late Victorian homosexual underground

—— Mail on Sunday

A fully convincing biography of this most intensely symbolic of Victorian lives

—— Gay Times

McKenna makes many interesting connections between Wilde’s life and his literary works

—— Mail on Sunday

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