VISHNU S CROWDED TEMPLE. India since the Great Rebellion.

Misra, Maria.

ISBN 10: 0713993677 / ISBN 13: 9780713993677

Edité par Allen Lane/Penguin, 2007., 2007

A propos de cet article

1st edition. 8vo. xxxiii + [536pp.] Colour and b/w. illustrations, double page map. Ownership inscription to front f.e.p. Original boards. Pictorial bluegreen d/w. lettered in cream and white, minor wear to edges. ISBN 9780713993677 US$15.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: VISHNU S CROWDED TEMPLE. India since the Great Rebellion.
• Éditeur: Allen Lane/Penguin, 2007.
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0713993677
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780713993677
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • HISTORY, MILITARY & TRANSPORT

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

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.