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The Romantics
A first novel set in contemporary India, this book describes how Samar, a young Brahmin, escapes a future of small-town jobs to live in Benares, losing himself in books and...
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire
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Author: Pankaj Mishra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public...
The Romantics
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From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking
Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the...
The World After Gaza
From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of...
A Passage to India
First time in Black Classics for Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj. Featuring a new introduction by novelist Pankaj Mishra. When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore...
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic
With an introduction by Pankaj Mishra The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living...
1857 the Oral Tradition
1857: The Oral Tradition is a unique work, largely using the sources of oral history in various parts of the country to reconstruct aspects of the great uprising of 1857....
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
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The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and
A revelatory history that uncovers the modern foundations of the Islamic world. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 'An eye-opening, well-written and very timely book' Yuval Noah Harari 'The...
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. 'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.' - ROBERT...
A Passage to India
Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town...
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Author: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2015* *Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural...