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summary of argumentative india by amarthyasen

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Argumentative Indian is a collection of essays by Amartya Sen, an economist and Nobel Prize winner. It focuses on the‘Argumentative history of India’.

The first essay in this collection is titled ‘Argumentative Indian’ which comes under the broader heading Voice and Heterodoxy. This essay explains in detail about contemporary India (2005), tracing back the history from traditional ancient India.

Contents

Critical Summary of The Argumentative Indian

Dialogue and Significance

Gender, Caste, and Voice

Democracy as Public Reasoning

Understanding Secularism

Skeptics, Agnostics, and Atheists

Science, Epistemology, and Heterodoxy

The importance of Arguments

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Critical Summary of The Argumentative Indian

The essay starts with a negative introduction about India, “Prolixity is not alien to us in India” with an illustration about the longest speech record set by an Indian, Krishna Menon. Then this statement is further substantiated from ancient Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, comparing its length with Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

Dialogue and Significance

From the epics, the argumentative tradition is traced out from the argument of Krishna and Arjuna that is quoted in Bhagavad Gita. Not only the argument that won but also the other side of the argument is given the equal significance “A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive”.

These dialogues of Krishna and Arjuna is borrowed by European culture and certain famous personalities like J. Robert Oppenheimer due to its significance. First world borrowing from the third world that shows ‘the gap that can be filled by borrowing’ in postcolonial reading. The argument has not lost its significance even in the contemporary time is the assertive statement of Amartya Sen.

Gender, Caste, and Voice

The tradition of arguments is confined to an exclusive part of the male elite, who have taken the place left by the Britishers in India. Though India is said to be patriarchal, it had and has women leaders governing the country, that is traced from ancient text Upanisad and Indian history.

Yet such women leaders are not elected in the US (first world). In the case of caste, the argument has not come to an end yet. This is centered on ‘Hinduism’, brahmin- dominated orthodoxy, that the other underprivileged changed their religion and got educated to be privileged.
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