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Home in the World. A Memoir
Home in the World. A Memoir
Sen Amartya (Sen Amartya)
SKU: VV1489020 ISBN: 9780241955369 Pages: 464 Paperback year: 2022 Publicher: Penguin (Penguin) Price: $149.57 ship 24-25
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| Аннотация к книге "Home in the World. A Memoir" The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised as much by his grandparents as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged 19. Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. He remembers his river journeys between Dhaka and his parents' ancestral homes and wonderfully explores the rich history and culture of Bengal. In 1943 he witnessed the disastrous unfolding of the Bengal Famine, and the following year the inflaming of tensions between Hindus and Muslims. In the years before Independence, some of his family were imprisoned for their opposition to British rule. Central to Sen's formation was the intellectually liberating school in... |