http://www.planetd.org/2006/07/20/the-argumentative-indian-book-review/ Critiquing the Politics, Policy & Practice of Development Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:08:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.planetd.org/2006/07/20/the-argumentative-indian-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-41254 Sujai Karampuri Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:16:37 +0000 http://www.planetd.org/blog/?p=145#comment-41254 You have done a good job in writing a review of Amartya Sen's book. I would like to include in here my criticism. In my own way, I concentrated on certain aspect of his without writing much about his book. It is titled "Argumentative Bengali" and be found at: http://sujaiblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/argumentative-bengali.html Thank you, Sujai You have done a good job in writing a review of Amartya Sen’s book. I would like to include in here my criticism. In my own way, I concentrated on certain aspect of his without writing much about his book. It is titled “Argumentative Bengali” and be found at:
http://sujaiblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/argumentative-bengali.html
Thank you,
Sujai

]]> http://www.planetd.org/2006/07/20/the-argumentative-indian-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-41250 In Defense of Indian Science & Reason at The Discomfort Zone Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:32:55 +0000 http://www.planetd.org/blog/?p=145#comment-41250 [...] Why is it that Indian contributions to science are undervalued? I find the answer in Amartya Sen’s The Argumentative Indian. His prognosis is that ideas of colonial superiority prevented a full recognition of Eastern contributions in areas where Europe considered itself advanced. This explains, for instance, how Lord Macaulay could exclaim: I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. [...] [...] Why is it that Indian contributions to science are undervalued? I find the answer in Amartya Sen’s The Argumentative Indian. His prognosis is that ideas of colonial superiority prevented a full recognition of Eastern contributions in areas where Europe considered itself advanced. This explains, for instance, how Lord Macaulay could exclaim: I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. [...]

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