How Long to Read The Need for Enemies

How Long Does it Take to Read The Need for Enemies?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read The Need for Enemies by Frederick George Bailey

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is The Need for Enemies?

The Need for Enemies by Frederick George Bailey is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Need for Enemies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read The Need for Enemies aloud.

What Reading Level is The Need for Enemies?

The Need for Enemies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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