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SENWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS  \nJon Chase  \nAmartya Sen was born in I933 and grew up in Santi-niketan and in Dhaka(now the capital of Bangladesh);As a student in India and then at Trinity College,Cambridge,he“seriously flirted,in turn,with Sanskrit,mathematics,and physics before settling for the eccen-tric charms of economics,\"as he has written.NowLamont University Professor at Harvard,he was Masterof Trinity College from I998 to 2004,and has taught atmany other universities in Britain,the United States,and India.When Professor Sen was awarded the·NobelPrize in Economics in I998,he was the first Asian to beso honored.  \nALso BY AMARTYA SEN  \n## Choice of Techniques\n\nCollective Choice and Social WelfareOn Economic InequalityPoverty and FaminesChoice,Welfare and MeasurementResources,Values and DevelopmentCommodities and CapabilitiesOn Ethics and EconomicsInequality ReexaminedDevelopment as FreedomRationality and FreedomIdentity and Violence  \n7  \n## The Argumentative Indian\n\n—1  \nTHE ARGUMENTATIVE INDIAN  \n## WRITINGS ON\n\nINDIAN HISTORY,  \n## CULTURE AND IDENTITY\n\nAMARTYA SEN  \nPICADOR  \nFARRAR,STRAUS AND GIROUX  \nNEW YORK  \nSE  \nTHE ARGUMENTATIVE INDIAN.Copyright ◎ 2005 by Amartya Sen.All rightsreserved.Printed in the United States of America.For information,address Picador,I75 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.1oo1o.  \nwww.picadorusa.com  \nPicador is a U.S.registered trademark and is used by Farrar,Straus and Giroux underlicense from Pan Books Limited.  \nFor information on Picador Reading Group Guides,as well as ordering,please con-tact Picador.  \nPhone:646-307-5629  \nFax:2I2-253-9627  \nE-mail:readinggroupguides@picadorusa.com  \nEarlier versions of some of the essays in this book have appeared in the followingpublications:The New York Review of Books,Essays s,8,I3;as Our Culture,TheirCulture (Calcutta:Nandan,I996),Essay 6(abridged earlier version);The NewRepublic,Essays 6(abridged earlier version),I2;Daedalus,Essay 7;Financial Times,Essay 9;Kaushik Basu and Sanjay Subrahmanyam,eds.,Unravelling the Nation:Sectarian Conflict and India's Secular Identity(Delhi:Penguin,I996),Essay I4;LittleMagazine,Essay I5.  \nThe publishers are grateful for permission to reproduce the following illustrations:Tagore and Gandhi at Santiniketan,◎Akg-Images;'Xuanzang [Hiuan-tsang]return-ing to China with Sanskrit manuscripts from India in 645 AD’,◎ Fujita Museum ofArt,Osaka;Arjuna hits the target',◎ British Library,London.  \n## Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data\n\nSen,Amartya.  \nThe argumentative Indian:writings on Indian history,culture and identity /byAmartya Sen.  \np.cm.Includes index.  \nISBN-I3:978-0-3I2-42602-6ISBN-I0:0-3I2-42602-X  \nI.India-Civilization.I.Title.  \nDS423.S3382005954-dc22  \nOriginally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd.First published in the United States by Farrar,Straus and Giroux  \nI0987  \n1  \nTo my sister,Supurna 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