Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism

This study contends that modern colonialism is successful not only because the ruling country subjugates through superior technical and economic resources, but also because the rulers propagate cultural subservience of the subject people. Exploring the myths, fantasies and psychologicaldefenses that went into the colonial culture, particularly the polarities that shaped the colonial theory of progress, Nandy describes the Indian experience and shows how the Indians broke with traditional norms of Western culture to protect their vision of an alternative future.Nandy, Ashis is the author of 'Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism', published 1984 under ISBN 9780195615050 and ISBN 0195615050.