苏林德·约德卡（Surinder S. Jodhka），贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁大学社会学教授，印度新德里人文科学中心高级研究员，牛津大学访问学者，主要研究方向包括农村转型、社群身份、社会文化等，重点关注种姓问题在当代印度社会生活中的表现形式。著有《种姓制度：牛津印度通识读本》（Caste: Oxford India Short Introductions）、《印度农村手册》（A Handbook of Rural India）、《审问印度的现代性》（Interrogating India’s Modernity）等。

Mark Tully is incomparable. No one has a greater understanding of the passions, the contradictions, the humour, the tragedy and the staggering resilience that constitute India. In his long awaited new book, he delves further than ever before into this country of one billion people. Covering subjects as diverse as Hindu extremism, bonded child labour, Sufi mysticism, the crisis ...(展开全部)

Paz looks at the people and landscapes of India, based on his years with the Mexican embassy, offering a collection of essays on Indian history, culture, art, politics, language, and philosophy.

The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious milieu that included even the Greek kingdoms of northwestern India, Buddhis...(展开全部)

In 1951 Octavio Paz travelled to India to serve as an attaché in the Mexican Embassy. Eleven years later he returned as Mexico's ambassador. In Light of India is Paz's celebration of that country and his most personal work of prose to date. As in all of his essays, he brings poetic insight and voluminous knowledge to bear on the subject, and the result is a series of fascinatin...(展开全部)

斯迪芬·麦勒迪斯·爱德华兹（1873一1927年），曾任职于印度内务部。赫伯特·利奥纳德·奥富雷·加勒特（1881～1941年），曾任职f印度教育部，并出任政府学院副校长。他们二人学识渊博，著作等身，涉猎广泛，尤以擅长印度历史著称。除了本书外，他们二人还有许多重要著作。斯迪芬·麦勒迪斯·爱德华兹的主要著作有：《牛津印度史》、《早期印度史》、《马拉塔人史》、《巴布尔：文人与暴君》等。赫伯特·利奥纳德·奥富雷·加勒特的主要著作有：《印度历史学生用书》、《锡克史》、《兰吉特·辛格宫廷大事录》、《一百年的的旁遮普》和《北印度的欧洲探险家》等。

India: A History in Objects presents a beautiful collection of material culture from South Asia and traces its history through a huge variety of art and artifacts, both religious and secular. Arranged chronologically, and abundantly illustrated with expertly selected objects, this superb new overview connects today’s South Asia with its past. Early chapters describe prehistoric...(展开全部)

India: A History in Objects presents a beautiful collection of material culture from South Asia and traces its history through a huge variety of art and artifacts, both religious and secular. Arranged chronologically, and abundantly illustrated with expertly selected objects, this superb new overview connects today’s South Asia with its past. Early chapters describe prehistoric...(展开全部)

India's Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, 'want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops'. From that striking insight Mark Tully has woven a superb series of 'stories' which explore Calcutta, from the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad (probably the biggest religious festival in the world) to the televising of a Hindu epic. Throughout, he combines analy...(展开全部)