

Incarnations
India in Fifty Lives
Author: Sunil Khilnani
Narrator: Vikas Adam
Unabridged: 16 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/20/2016
Author: Sunil Khilnani
Narrator: Vikas Adam
Unabridged: 16 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/20/2016
Sunil Khilnani is the author of the acclaimed and influential The Idea of India. He currently serves as the Avantha Professor and director of the India Institute at King's College London. He was formerly professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been a visiting professor of politics at Seikei University, Tokyo, and was elected a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He has also held a Leverhulme Fellowship, and has been a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C., a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.
This book attempts to tell the history of India in 50 portraits of its prominent people starting from Buddha and finishing with the stars of Bollywood and the newly rich. This strategy is only partly successful as it is fragmentary by definition and it is difficult to get any coherent historical nar......more
Reading this book felt like being offered brief glimpses (under 10 pages each) into the lives of these important figures drawn from Indian history (from art to business to religion to politics), but without the benefit of knowing anything about the historical/political moment, and needing to discern......more
How do you choose 50 lives to illustrate the evolution of the palimpsest that is India? Khilnani, whose book The Idea of India, remains one of my favourites, attempts this without too much of a heavy hand. These are 50 short biographical sketches - most very obvious (Buddha, Akbar, Gandhi, Ambedkar,......more