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100			_aKhilnani, Sunil
245			_aIncarnations: India in 50 lives
260			_bAllen Lane, _c2007 _aLondon:
300			_axxiv, 500 p. _b[08] p. of plates : ill. col. _c22 cm
365			_aINR _b599.00
520			_a For 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.
650			_aIndia - Biography
650			_aKautilya
650			_aAshoka
650			_aAryabhata
650			_aMirabai
650			_aVivekananda
650			_aRammohun Roy
650			_aIndira Gandhi
650			_aSatyajit Ray
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