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100 1 _aMishra, Pankaj
245 1 0 _aTemptations of the West :
_bhow to be modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and beyond
_c/ Pankaj Mishra
250 _a1st ed
260 _aNew York
_b: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
_c, 2006.
300 _a323 p.
_c; 24 cm.
500 _aEssays first appearing in slightly different forms in The New York Review of Books, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and the Guardian Weekend Magazine.
505 0 _aBenares : 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.
600 1 0 _aMishra, Pankaj
_x-Travel
_z-South Asia
651 _aSouth Asia
_x-Description and travel
651 _aSouth Asia
_x-Civilization
_z-Western influences
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