The Need for Enemies : : A Bestiary of Political Forms / / F. G. Bailey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bailey, F. G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; 1. The Babel Sound of Politics --; 2. Bhubaneswar New Capital --; 3. The Rhetoric of Paternalism --; 4. The Rhetoric of Business --; 5. The Rhetoric of Struggle --; 6. Pragmatism and the Gandhians --; 7. Disenchantment and Compromise --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501733284; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501733284
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: F. G. Bailey.

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.