An entertaining and provocative account of India’s past, written by one of the country’s leading thinkersFor all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiousl
Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of current events in Asia and after the revelations about India's nuclear capabilities. This study addresses the paradoxes and i
'Incarnations makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after' Dai
At the heart of India's self-image since independence has been 'the idea of India' - modern, technocratic, egalitarian, secular - but the tensions between the idea and the reality have become almost i
A classic since it was first published in 1997, this magisterial historical study addresses the paradoxes and ironies of the world’s largest democracy. When, in 1947, the British divided and departed
One of the world's most ancient cultures, India can be understood and explained in as many ways as humans can possibly devise. To make sense of this astonishing turmoil of ideas, Sunil Khilnani has cr
An entertaining and provocative account of India’s past, written by one of the country’s leading thinkersFor all of India’s myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiousl
The countries of South Asia share a colonial past, have common cultural and civilizational connections, and share some common elements in their constitutional systems, governance structures, and legal
