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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Publication date
December 1, 1999
Pages
285
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Har/com
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780940322080
ISBN-10
0940322080
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.75 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.20 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$24.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world? The novelist Arundhati Roy has written, specially for this collection, a fierce denunciation of the Indian nuclear program, which serves as an introduction to nine essays on India, all originally published in The New York Review of Books. In this volume, seven distinguished writers offer penetrating insights into the complexities of the subcontinent. Roderick MacFarquhar reflects on the legacy of Empire and Partition, Ian Buruma considers secularism and Indian democracy, Pankaj Mishra remembers life in Benares, and Christopher de Bellaigue writes on a violent Bombay. But the volatile intersections of history, politics, and culture on which they focus haunt Indian literature too, as shown in essays by Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen on Rabindranath Tagore, Hilary Mantel on Rohinton Mistry, and Anita Desai on Indian women's writing.
Included is a specially commissioned CD containing a wide range of Indian music.
Included is a specially commissioned CD containing a wide range of Indian music.
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Hardcover
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Har/com edition from New York Review of Books (December 1, 1999)
9780940322080 | details & prices | 285 pages | 5.75 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $24.95
About: How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world?
About: How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world?
Paperback
from New York Review of Books (September 1, 2001)
9780940322943 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $14.95
About: How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world?
About: How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world?
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