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Temptations of the West : how to be modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and beyond / Pankaj Mishra

By:

Mishra, Pankaj

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: 323 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0374173214 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
9780374173210

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DDC classification:

954.05 MIS

Contents:

Benares : learning to read -- Allahabad : the Nehrus, the Gandhis, and democracy -- Ayodhya : the modernity of Hinduism -- Bollywood : India shining -- Kashmir : the cost of nationalism -- Pakistan : jihad globalized -- Afghanistan : communists, mullahs, and warlords -- Nepal : the "People's war" -- Tibet : a backward country.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	954.05 MIS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		025530

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Essays first appearing in slightly different forms in The New York Review of Books, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and the Guardian Weekend Magazine.

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