Incarnations: A History of India in 50 Lives

by Sunil Khilnani, Vinay Kumar Srivastava

$26.95

$29.95

In stock

Free & Quick Delivery Worldwide

For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans-some famous, some unjustly forgotten-bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vinay Kumar Srivastava

Vinay Kumar Srivastava teaches social anthropology at the University of Delhi. He is the author of Religious Renunciation of a Pastoral People and has edited Methodology and Fieldwork. He has carried out intensive fieldwork in western Rajasthan, and is presently working on a book on the economy of a seminomadic, pastora community.