Temptations of the West How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond

by Mishra, Pankaj

• ISBN13: 9780312426415
• ISBN10: 0312426410
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-12
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In Temptations of the West, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on journeys through South Asia, and considers the pressures of Western-style modernity and prosperity on the region. Beginning in India, his examination takes him from the realities of Bollywood stardom, to the history of Jawaharlal Nehru's post-independence politics. In Kashmir, he reports on the brutal massacre of thirty-five Sikhs, and its intriguing local aftermath. And in Tibet, he exquisitely parses the situation whereby the atheist Chinese government has discovered that Tibetan Buddhism can be "packaged and sold to tourists." Temptations of the West is essential reading about a conflicted and rapidly changing region of the world.

Author Biography

Pankaj Mishra is the author of the novel The Romantics, and An End to Suffering. His writing frequently appears in the The New York Review of Books, Granta, and London's Times Literary Supplement. He lives in London and India.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Prologue
Benares: Learning to Read	p. 3
Allahabad: The Nehrus, the Gandhis, and Democracy	p. 25
Ayodhya: The Modernity of Hinduism	p. 80
Bollywood: India Shining	p. 113
Kashmir: The Cost of Nationalism	p. 147
Pakistan: Jihad Globalized	p. 212
Afghanistan: Communists, Mullahs, and Warlords	p. 253
Nepal: The "People's War"	p. 285
Tibet: A Backward Country	p. 304
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