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100			_aKhilnani, Sunil _9330174
245			_aIncarnations: India in 50 lives _cKhilnani, Sunil
260			_bAllen Lane _c2016 _aUK
300			_axvii, 636 p.
520			_aFor all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. Sunil Khilnani's Incarnations fills that space: recapturing the human dimension of how the world's largest democracy came to be. In this stunningly illustrated and deeply researched book, accompanying his major BBC Radio 4 series, Khilnani explores the lives of 50 Indians, from the spiritualist Buddha to the capitalist Dhirubhai Ambani - lives that light up India's rich, varied past and its continuous ferment of ideas. Khilnani's trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, poets, stars, and corporate titans - some famous, some unjustly forgotten - bring feeling, wry humour, and uncommon insight to social dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own. As he journeys across the country, and through its past, Khilnani uncovers more than just history. In rocket launches and ayurvedic call centres, in slum temples and Bollywood studios, in California communes and grimy ports, he examines the continued, and often surprising, relevance of the men and women who have made India - and the world - what it is. Their stories will inform, move and entertain this book's many readers. (https://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780241208229/incarnations-india-50-lives)
650			_aIndia - Lives
650			_aIndian history - Asian history
650			_aIntellectual history - India
650			_aBiography - Historical, political, military - India
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