TY  - GEN
T1  - The Need for Enemies : a Bestiary of Political Forms
A1  - Bailey, F. G.
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1129161305
AB  - 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.
OP  - 240
CN  - JQ620.O759
SN  - 9781501733284
SN  - 1501733281
KW  - Political culture : India : Odisha.
KW  - Rhetoric : Political aspects : India : Odisha.
KW  - Opposition (Political science)
KW  - Enemies.
KW  - Political psychology.
KW  - Odisha (India) : Politics and government.
KW  - Discours politique : Inde : Odisha.
KW  - Opposition (Science politique)
KW  - Ennemis.
KW  - Psychologie politique.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : History & Theory.
KW  - Enemies
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Political psychology
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Rhetoric : Political aspects
KW  - India : Odisha
ER  -