Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion - Hardcover

Misra, Maria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713993677 ISBN 13: 9780713993677

Verlag: Allen Lane, 2007

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Book by Misra Maria

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There can be few more discussed countries in the world today than India. In recent years it has shed its popular image as a poor, tradition-bound backwater to stand poised on the threshold of super-power status, rivalled only by China as the greatest winner in the post-Cold War world order.

In Vishnu’s Crowded Temple Maria Misra has written the essential history to allow us to understand the fascinating historical trajectory of this emerging third-world super-state. The book dramatizes the dynamic counterpoint between the resilient Indian people and a succession of ambitious, if flawed visions of the nation.

This is an extraordinary story and Misra tells it charismatically with wit and style. Vishnu’s Crowded Temple is the history of a wholly contemporary state, an India shaped both by western and eastern ideas, but the slave of neither – the harbinger of a resolutely post-modern democracy, at once wholly new and yet steeped in its past.

Biografía del autor:

Maria Misra is Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University and a Fellow of Keble College Oxford. She presented a television series, called An Indian Affair, which was broadcast on Channel 4 and is the author of Business, Race and Politics in British India.

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• Verlag: Allen Lane
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0713993677
• ISBN 13: 9780713993677
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576