Temptations of the West how to be modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and beyond
Traveling in the changing cultures of South Asia, Mishra sees the pressures—the temptations—of Western-style modernity and prosperity, and teases out the paradoxes of globalization. A visit to Allahabad, birthplace of Jawaharlal Nehru, occasions a brief history of the tumultuous post-independence po...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Acceso en línea: | Acceso a las primeras páginas |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b17871888*spi |
| Sumario: | Traveling in the changing cultures of South Asia, Mishra sees the pressures—the temptations—of Western-style modernity and prosperity, and teases out the paradoxes of globalization. A visit to Allahabad, birthplace of Jawaharlal Nehru, occasions a brief history of the tumultuous post-independence politics Nehru set in motion. In Kashmir, just after the brutal killing of thirtyfive Sikhs, Mishra sees Muslim guerrillas playing with Sikh village children while the media ponder a (largely irrelevant) visit by President Clinton. And in Tibet Mishra exquisitely parses the situation whereby the Chinese government—officially atheist and strongly opposed to a free Tibet—has discovered that Tibetan Buddhism can “be packaged and sold to tourists.” |
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| Notas: | Essays first appearing in slightly different forms in The New York Review of Books, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and the Guardian Weekend Magazine. |
| Descripción Física: | 323 p. ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374173210 |
