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Title: The Argumentative Bengali?
Review: How do you encapsulate nearly 5000 years of known/spoken/written history of a billion people into nearly 360 pages and still come up with some coherent conclusions? Amartya Sen has managed to do that brilliantly.This is an excellent book, and the only reason I will focus on the minor quibbles is that I cannot add any more to the positive praise this book has received from so many other quarters - most of which I agree with.Sen does seem to have strong political views - which at times distract from his otherwise even handed approach to most of the material he presents.All generalisations are no more than 50%-70% accurate(including this one). At times Sen does appear to draw a long bow. Given that only people profiled in the book at two Bengalis (Tagore and Satyajit Ray), and most of the examples are also based on thought and discourse in Bengal - this book could be more appropriately named The Argumentative Bengali.
