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Incarnations - A History of India in 50 Lives (Paperback)
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Incarnations - A History of India in 50 Lives (Paperback)
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'Incarnations makes the mind fly across time, place and history.
You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some
flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after'
Daily Telegraph For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and
moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place.
Sunil Khilnani's Incarnations fills that space: recapturing the
human dimension of how the world's largest democracy came to be. In
this stunningly illustrated and deeply researched book,
accompanying his major BBC Radio 4 series, Khilnani explores the
lives of 50 Indians, from the spiritualist Buddha to the capitalist
Dhirubhai Ambani - lives that light up India's rich, varied past
and its continuous ferment of ideas. Khilnani's trenchant portraits
of emperors, warriors, philosophers, poets, stars, and corporate
titans - some famous, some unjustly forgotten - bring feeling, wry
humour, and uncommon insight to social dilemmas that extend from
ancient times to our own. As he journeys across the country, and
through its past, Khilnani uncovers more than just history. In
rocket launches and ayurvedic call centres, in slum temples and
Bollywood studios, in California communes and grimy ports, he
examines the continued, and often surprising, relevance of the men
and women who have made India - and the world - what it is. Their
stories will inform, move and entertain this book's many readers.
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