South Asia Definitions And Clarifications

by Reginald Massey

Overview

South Asia Definitions And Clarifications

by Reginald Massey

This wide-ranging book sweeps away several religious, cultural, social and historical cobwebs. Fashionable correctness in all its forms is firmly rejected. Many received notions are proved to be false and famous iconic figures are shown to have had failings that affected the region’s future. Encountering South Asia: Definitions and Clarifications, therefore, may be shocking to some and uncomfortable to others. Nevertheless, all who read this book will be impressed by its rigorous research, cogent arguments and lucid logic. It will certainly provoke wide debate. Written in engaging and persuasive prose this book is an education on South Asia.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940012636065
Publisher:	Apps Publisher
Publication date:	02/11/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Reginald Massey has authored many works on India. His books on Indian classical music and dance are required reading for all those who study these subjects. He wrote and produced Bangladesh I Love You, a film which starred the boxing phenomenon Muhammad Ali.

Azaadi!, his collection of stories and histories concerned South Asia after 1947, the year of India's independence and the creation of Pakistan. His poetry collection Lament of a Lost Hero and Other Poems chronicles subcontinental society in the post-independence period.

Born in Lahore, in British India, he lives in Britain where over many years he has been journalist, critic, director-producer, broadcaster, lecturer and activist. He is currently completing South Asia: The Twenty-first Century and the Future, a sequel to this book. In 2008, he was Writer-in-Residence at the UBS think tank at Wolsberg chateau, Switzerland.

His wife, actress Jamila Massey, collaborated with him on three books: The Music of India, The Dances of India and The Immigrants, a novel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

"Here is a comprehensive but absorbing account of the subcontinent. Reginald Massey has managed to combine facts and stories with the laudable idea of telling us about the tolerant, liberal and inclusive India which is often ignored in the recently fashionable zealous enthusiasms of chauvinist historians. It is eminently readable and vastly informative... a fine sweep of such a long and complex history.’’

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