Temptations of the West : how to be modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and beyond / Pankaj Mishra.

By:

Mishra, Pankaj [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: 323 p. ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780312426415 (pbk.)
0374173214 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
9780374173210

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DDC classification:

915.404532 MIS 23 017641

LOC classification:

DS337 .M58 2006

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Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	915.404532 MIS 017641 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		017641

Essays first appearing in slightly different forms in The New York Review of Books, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and the Guardian Weekend Magazine.

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