Temptations of the West How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond

Name: Temptations of the West How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780312426415

ISBN-10: 0312426410

ISBN-13: 9780312426415

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Authors: Pankaj Mishra

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nbsp; ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice nbsp; InTemptations of the West,Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on journeys through South Asia, and considers the pressures of Western-style modernity and prosperity on the region. Beginning in India, his examination takes him from the realities of Bollywood stardom, to the history of Jawaharlal Nehru's post-independence politics. In Kashmir, he reports on the brutal massacre of thirty-five Sikhs, and its intriguing local aftermath. And in Tibet, he exquisitely parses the situation whereby the atheist Chinese government has discovered that Tibetan Buddhism can be "packaged and sold to…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 6/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Pankaj Mishra is currently editing an anthology of contemporary Indian writers. He divides his time between New Delhi & Simla.



Preface


Prologue


Benares: Learning to Read





Allahabad: The Nehrus, the Gandhis, and Democracy


Ayodhya: The Modernity of Hinduism


Bollywood: India Shining





Kashmir: The Cost of Nationalism


Pakistan: Jihad Globalized


Afghanistan: Communists, Mullahs, and Warlords





Nepal: The "People's War"


Tibet: A Backward Country