Ambiguities of Heritage
| تعداد | رعایت | رعایتی قیمت |
| 3 - 4 | 25% | ₨ 1,125 |
| 5 - 9 | 33% | ₨ 1,005 |
| 10 + | 40% | ₨ 900 |
Doubts, ambiguities, contradictions – each is integral to every tradition or heritage. Disquieting, nevertheless integral. No tradition is without them; none can be without them. And contrary to what dictionary definitions might lead one to believe, one is not just born into a tradition or heritage; one has to claim it and claim all of it, the ‘good’ with the ‘bad. Only after claiming the whole can one proceed to the real task concerning one’s heritage, namely to challenge it and be challenged by it. Otherwise, one only lets oneself be deluded by ‘myths and inventions, a particularly threatening possibility given the politics of identity that is as much raging here, in North America, as in South Asia.
Born in Bara Banki, India, C. M. Naim teaches at the University of Chicago in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilisations. He has published stories, poetry and criticism in Urdu and English. The short fictional pieces and assorted essays collected in this volume emerged out of his various struggles to gain some understanding of himself both as a Muslim in post-1947 India and as an Indian and a Muslim in the United States where he has lived since 1957.
ISBN 969-8380-19-1
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