India Analysed: Sudhir Kakar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo

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Iranian scholar Ramin Jahanbegloo interviews prominent psychoanalyst and prolific author Sudhir Kakar, and in the process, gives readers an insight into the psychological make-up of contemporary India. Sudhir Kakar addresses a wide range of issues encompassing philosophy, democracy, the
Partition, and Gandhi, among others, and the conversational style of the interviews helps demystify many of Kakar's complex ideas.

About the Author

Ramin Jahanbegloo, well-known Iranian philosopher, is currently associate professor at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Talking India: Ashis Nandy in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo (OUP, 2006), and most recently, India Revisited: Conversations on Contemporary India (OUP, 2007). Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst, novelist, and well-known scholar in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion. He has taught at several universities in India and abroad, and is currently Adjunct Professor of Leadership at INSEAD, France. Kakar's sixteen books of non-fiction and four books of fiction have been widely translated.