{"product_id":"incarnations-a-history-of-india-in-fifty-lives","title":"Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tour de force of intellectual history, engagingly written.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn entertaining and provocative account of India’s past, written by one of the country’s leading thinkers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor all India’s myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, bringing to life fifty extraordinary men and women who changed both India and the world. Journeying across India in pursuit of their stories―visiting slum temples, ayurvedic call centers, Bollywood studios, textile mills, and Mughal fortresses―Khilnani offers trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, artists, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs. Some of these historical figures are famous. Some are unjustly forgotten. And all, Khilnani convinces us, are deeply relevant today. As their rich and surprising lives take the reader through twenty-five hundred winding years of Indian and world history, Khilnani brings wit, feeling, historical rigor, and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe encounter the Buddha not as the usual beatific icon but as a radical young social critic. We meet the ancient Sanskrit linguist who inspires computer programmers today. We hear the medieval poets, ribald and profound, who mocked rituals and caste and whose voices resonate in contemporary poetry. And we see giants of the twentieth-century Independence movement―among them Mohandas Gandhi; Ambedkar, the Untouchable lawyer turned constitution maker; and the legendary singer M. S. Subbulakshmi―not as cardboard cutouts but as complex and striving human beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt once a provocative and sophisticated reinterpretation of India’s history and an incisive commentary on its present-day conflicts and struggles, Incarnations is an authoritative, sweeping, and often moving account of a nation coming into its own.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57076045316441,"sku":"shelf 24","price":7.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/6021\/files\/9780374537210.jpg?v=1768489631","url":"https:\/\/www.quaybooksstore.com\/products\/incarnations-a-history-of-india-in-fifty-lives","provider":"Quay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}