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Biography

Ashis Nandy is a prolific political psychologist, sociologist, and cultural critic.

Ashis Nandy, a political and cultural psychologist and futurist, has been associated with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Ashis Nandy, a political and cultural psychologist and futurist, has been associated with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Ashis Nandy (born in in Bihar into a Bengali family) is a major figure of contemporary Indian critical thought.

Ashis Nandy (born 13 May ) is an Indian political psychologist, social theorist, futurist and critic.

Professor Nandy was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar in When he was 10, British India was partitioned into two separate nations of India and Pakistan.

See for example Ashis Nandy, 'Introduction: Science as a Reason of State', in Nandy, Science,.

Nandy has also coauthored a number of human rights reports and is active in movements for peace, alternative sciences and technologies, and cultural survival. He is a member of the Executive Councils of the World Future Studies Federation, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, the International Network for Cultural Alternatives to Development, and the People’s Union for Civil Liberties.

Nandy has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., a Charles Wallace Fellow at the University of Hull, and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh. He held the first UNESCO Chair at the Center for European Studies, University of Trier, in 1994.

See also: Partition, Fanon, Non-violence

Selected Publications

Books

• Alternative Sciences: Creativity and Authenticity in Two Indian Scientists.

  New Delhi: Allied, 1980. Delhi: Oxf