Temptations Of The West

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Temptations Of The West

Editorial: india_penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4342-125-2

ISBN sin guiones: 9780143421252

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 456

Fecha de publicación: 2025-01-01

Idioma: inglés (India)

Temptations of the West

Editorial: picador

ISBN: 978-03-3054-311-8

ISBN sin guiones: 9780330543118

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 448

Fecha de publicación: 2011-10-12

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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Temptations Of The West

Pankaj Mishra

Primera publicación: 2025-01-01

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.