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Synopsis
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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F. G. Bailey is Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.
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The Need for Enemies. A Bestiary of Political Forms
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. An 'as new' copy. Of obvious and considerable reference value. India, Orissa, Rhetoric. ; 223 pages; Indexed, annotated and complete with a comprehensive bibliography. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 11426
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22.0 x 14.0cms 224pp very good hardback (no dustwrapper) This book offers a ground-level view of regional politics in Orissa India after independence. It analyzes various political problems: 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. It is also a treatise on political morale and follows Orissa''s politicians through a maze of inconsistencies and makes clear the dangers that beset political cultures in a complex world of competing alternatives. Seller Inventory # 20307660
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Condition: very good. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998, xiv, 223 p ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780801434709. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY, Seller Inventory # 174476
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