TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bailey,F.G.
TI  - The Need for Enemies: A Bestiary of Political Forms 
SN  - 9781501733284
U1  - 320.9541309045 21/eng/20230216
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Enemies
KW  - Opposition (Political science)
KW  - Political culture
KW  - India
KW  - Odisha
KW  - Political psychology
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733284
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501733284
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501733284/original
ER  -