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The Need for Enemies : A Bestiary of Political Forms / F. G. Bailey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: 1998Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501733284
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  • 320.9541309045 21/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Babel Sound of Politics -- 2. Bhubaneswar New Capital -- 3. The Rhetoric of Paternalism -- 4. The Rhetoric of Business -- 5. The Rhetoric of Struggle -- 6. Pragmatism and the Gandhians -- 7. Disenchantment and Compromise -- References -- Index
Summary: Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F. G. Bailey returns to the state of Orissa in the eastern India of the 1950s to consider what held a diverse collection of people together and what drove them apart. The last of Bailey's books about Orissa, The Need for Enemies, offers a ground-level view of regional politics in South Asia in the years following independence. In doing so, the book analyzes political problems that are of universal concern: incivility in public life, the inescapable dilemma of duty always in tension with interests, public consensus on what is right and good giving way to a babel of inconsistent moralities, and, not least, true believers contesting realists who see virtue in compromise. A portrait of Orissa and its leaders in 1959, the book is also a treatise on political morale. As Bailey tells the story of political and social turmoil in postcolonial India, a tale rich in ethnographic detail, he follows Orissa's politicians through a maze of inconsistencies, and makes clear the dangers that beset political cultures in a complex world of multiple competing alternatives. There is a need to simplify, Bailey suggests, and an ever present risk of making the image too simple.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Babel Sound of Politics -- 2. Bhubaneswar New Capital -- 3. The Rhetoric of Paternalism -- 4. The Rhetoric of Business -- 5. The Rhetoric of Struggle -- 6. Pragmatism and the Gandhians -- 7. Disenchantment and Compromise -- References -- Index

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Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F. G. Bailey returns to the state of Orissa in the eastern India of the 1950s to consider what held a diverse collection of people together and what drove them apart. The last of Bailey's books about Orissa, The Need for Enemies, offers a ground-level view of regional politics in South Asia in the years following independence. In doing so, the book analyzes political problems that are of universal concern: incivility in public life, the inescapable dilemma of duty always in tension with interests, public consensus on what is right and good giving way to a babel of inconsistent moralities, and, not least, true believers contesting realists who see virtue in compromise. A portrait of Orissa and its leaders in 1959, the book is also a treatise on political morale. As Bailey tells the story of political and social turmoil in postcolonial India, a tale rich in ethnographic detail, he follows Orissa's politicians through a maze of inconsistencies, and makes clear the dangers that beset political cultures in a complex world of multiple competing alternatives. There is a need to simplify, Bailey suggests, and an ever present risk of making the image too simple.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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