India in Mind

Name: India in Mind
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ISBN: 9780375727450

ISBN-10: 0375727450

ISBN-13: 9780375727450

Edition: 2005

Authors: Pankaj Mishra

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Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that has been written about the world’s second most populous nation over the past two centuries. From Mark Twain’s puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs, to Allen Ginsberg’s awe at the country’s spiritual and natural splendors, or from J. R. Ackerley’s delightful recollections of his visits with an eccentric gay Maharajah, to Gore Vidal’s unforgettable scene in his novel Creation, in which his character finally meets the Buddha and is bewildered–all…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



J. R. Ackerley, from


Hindoo Holiday Paul Bowles, "Notes Mailed at Nagercoil" Bruce Chatwin, "Shamdev: The Wolf-Boy" Robyn Davidson, from


Desert Places E. M. Forster, from


Abinger Harvest Allen Ginsberg, from


Indian Journals Hermann Hesse, from


"Childhood of the Magician" Pico Iyer, from


Abandon Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, "Two More Under the Indian Sun" Rudyard Kiplin, from


Kim Claude Levi-Strauss, from


Tristes Tropiques Andre Malraux, from


Anti-Memoirs Peter Matthiessen, from


The Snow Leopard W. Somerset Maugham, from


A Writer's Notebook Ved Mehta, from


Portrait of India Jan Morris, "Mrs. Gupta Never Rang" V. S. Naipaul, from


An Area of Darkness George Orwell, "Shootining an Elephant" Pier Paolo Pasolini, from


The Scent of India Octavio Paz, from


A Tale of Two Gardens Alan Ross, from


Blindfold Games Paul Scott, from


The Jewel in the Crown Paul Theroux, from


The Great Railway Bazaar Mark Twain, from


Following the Equator Gore Vidal, from


Creation