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Book Cover for: Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond: With a New Introduction by Hilary Mantel, Pankaj Mishra

Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond: With a New Introduction by Hilary Mantel

Pankaj Mishra

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In Temptations of the West, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on journeys through South Asia, and considers the pressures of Western-style modernity and prosperity on the region. Beginning in India, his examination takes him from the realities of Bollywood stardom, to the history of Jawaharlal Nehru's post-independence politics. In Kashmir, he reports on the brutal massacre of thirty-five Sikhs, and its intriguing local aftermath. And in Tibet, he exquisitely parses the situation whereby the atheist Chinese government has discovered that Tibetan Buddhism can be "packaged and sold to tourists." Temptations of the West is essential reading about a conflicted and rapidly changing region of the world.

Book Details

  • Publisher: India Penguin
  • Publish Date: Apr 13rd, 2025
  • Pages: 456
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9780143421252
  • Categories: • Asia - Southeast Asia

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About the Author

Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, and writes regularly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.

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