82:, in the 1950s, was, in range, variety and intellectual strength, the most exciting place in Britain to be. He took his first degree at Leeds in 1960, then began to work for the degree of doctor of philosophy, but was distracted from that by interests in physics, maths, music, and philosophy, and in 1962 was appointed to his first academic post, at the
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Directorate-General V of the European Commission, and organised a representative conference on outstanding issues in the progress towards equal treatment of women throughout the nine members of the European Economic Community as at 1981, and acted as the
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Nandy always had a detailed personal interest in broadcasting as 'the way a society talks to itself', and he served as the chairman of the BBC's
Immigrant Programme (1983–1988), and as a member of its General Council (1983–1990). He was appointed a member of Lord Annan's Committee of Inquiry into
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described Nandy as "a coloured communist". In 1964, he was appointed as a lecturer, and from 1964 to 1967 chaired the
Leicester Campaign for Racial Equality and also took part in sit-ins at the Admiral Nelson pub, which at that time had a
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had been located, and remained its Deputy
Director and chief policymaker for the next ten years, remaining until 1986. There, among other work, he was intimately involved in driving through the government's policy on taxation
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after he tried to take a photograph of police officers sitting in the back of a van reading porn. In 1989 he supported
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The Uses of Fiction: Essays on the Modern Novel in Honour of Arnold Kettle
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