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100 1 $aMishra, Pankaj.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89267544
245 10 $aTemptations of the West :$bhow to be modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and beyond /$cPankaj Mishra.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus, and Giroux,$c2006.
300 $a323 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aEssays first appearing in slightly different forms in The New York Review of Books, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and the Guardian Weekend Magazine.
505 00 $tPrologue : Benares : learning to read --$tAllahabad : the Nehrus, the Gandhis, and democracy --$tAyodhya : the modernity of Hinduism --$tBollywood : India shining --$tKashmir : the cost of nationalism --$tPakistan : Jihad globalized --$tAfghanistan : communists, mullahs, and warlords --$tNepal : the "people's war" --$tTibet : a backward country.
520 1 $a"In his fourth book, following the acclaimed An End to Suffering, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on journeys that are at once epic and personal." "Traveling in the changing cultures of South Asia, Mishra sees the pressures - the temptations - of Western-style modernity and prosperity, and adroitly teases out the paradoxes of globalization. A visit to Allahabad, the birth-place 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 thirty-five Sikhs, he sees Muslim guerrillas playing with Sikh village children while the media ponder a (largely irrelevant) visit by President Clinton. And in Tibet he 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.""--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aSouth Asia$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117017
651 0 $aSouth Asia$xCivilization$xWestern influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006002742
600 10 $aMishra, Pankaj$xTravel$zSouth Asia.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006011987.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0643/2006011987-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0643/2006011987-d.html
852 00 $bbar$hDS337$i.M58 2006
852 00 $bleh$hDS337$i.M58 2006