Nandy joined the
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, as a young faculty member. While working there, he developed his own methodology by integrating
clinical psychology and sociology. Meanwhile, he was invited by a number of universities and research institutions abroad to carry out research and to give them lectures. He served as the Director of CSDS between 1992 and 1997. He also serves on the Editorial Collective of
Public Culture, a reviewed journal published by Duke University Press. Nandy has coauthored a number of human rights reports and is active in movements for peace, alternative sciences and technologies, and cultural survival. He is a member of the Executive Councils of the
World Futures Studies Federation, the
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, the International Network for Cultural Alternatives to Development, and the
People's Union for Civil Liberties. Nandy has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the
Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., a Charles Wallace Fellow at the
University of Hull, and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities,
University of Edinburgh. He held the first UNESCO Chair at the Center for European Studies,
University of Trier, in 1994. In 2006 he became the National Fellow of the
Indian Council of Social Science Research. Nandy has explored a range of issues across politics, psychology, and society in his academic work. He has written extensively in last two decades. His 1983 book, titled
The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism, talked about the psychological problems posed at a personal level by colonialism, for both coloniser and colonised. Nandy argues that the understanding of self is intertwined with those of race, class, and religion under colonialism, and that the Gandhian movement can be understood in part as an attempt to transcend a strong tendency of educated Indians to articulate political striving for independence in European terms. Nandy's writings reflect his engagement with a wide range of topics, including political disputes, racial conflicts, and non-violence. ==Works==