Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author. Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than fifty years a...(展开全部)

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author. Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than fifty years a...(展开全部)

1988年，奈保尔第三度周游印度，这次的主题是从他特里尼达的童年生活中所感知的印度，验证对照已是单一实体的印度。近距离观察之后，他所看见的是它如何分解成宗教、种姓、阶级的拼图。对奈保尔而言，这多样性正是印度的力量所在。与前两次游历印度相比较，他的看法又如何呢？最显著的，也许就是奈保尔更加接近或者说成为了一个印度人，也就能更准确地向我们描述印度。

1988年，奈保尔第三度周游印度，这次的主题是从他特里尼达的童年生活中所感知的印度，验证对照已是单一实体的印度。近距离观察之后，他所看见的是它如何分解成宗教、种姓、阶级的拼图。对奈保尔而言，这多样性正是印度的力量所在。与前两次游历印度相比较，他的看法又如何呢？最显著的，也许就是奈保尔更加接近或者说成为了一个印度人，也就能更准确地向我们描述印度。

A bursting, heartfelt, debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears. For as long as Rae can remember, it’s been her and Mum, and their dog, Splinter; a small, deliberately unremarkable, family. They have their walks, their cooking routines, their home. Sometimes Mum disappears for a while to ...(展开全部)

In ‘India: A History’ five millennia of the sub-continent’s history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East. This definitive work combines narrative pace and skill with social, economic and cultural analysis. India’s history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral nomadism, and then...(展开全部)

An inward-looking economy with a State-dominated development programme to a liberalized economy operating in a globalized world—India has indeed come a long way since Independence. In this volume, Bimal Jalan—long-standing witness to India’s trajectory through the decades—gives us a complete picture of the country’s economic journey so far. In the pages of this book we read abo...(展开全部)

An inward-looking economy with a state-dominated development programme to a liberalized economy operating in a globalized world-india has indeed come a long way since Independence. In this volume, Bimal jalan-long-standing witness to India's trajectory through the decades-gives us a complete picture of the country economic journey so far. in the pages of this book we read about...(展开全部)

When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its ins ular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz,...(展开全部)

In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged. No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, ...(展开全部)