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008    060411s2006    nyu           000 0deng   
010      2006011987 
020    0374173214|q(hardcover :|qalk. paper) 
020    9780374173210|q(hardcover :|qalk. paper) 
020    0312426410 
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100 1  Mishra, Pankaj. 
245 10 Temptations of the West :|bhow to be modern in India, 
       Pakistan, Tibet and beyond /|cPankaj Mishra. 
250    1st ed. 
260    New York :|bFarrar, Straus, and Giroux,|c2006. 
300    323 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    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. 
505 0  Benares : learning to read -- Allahabad : the Nehrus, the 
       Gandhis, and democracy -- Ayodhya : the modernity of 
       Hinduism -- Bollywood : India shining -- Kashmir : the 
       cost of nationalism -- Pakistan : jihad globalized -- 
       Afghanistan : communists, mullahs, and warlords -- Nepal :
       the "People's war" -- Tibet : a backward country. 
520 1  "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.""-
       -Jacket. 
600 10 Mishra, Pankaj|xTravel|zSouth Asia. 
600 17 Mishra, Pankaj.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01527582 
650  7 Civilization|xWestern influences.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01352414 
650  7 Travel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01155558 
650  7 Kulturwandel.|0(DE-588)4033596-3|2gnd 
650  7 Modernität.|0(DE-588)4139842-7|2gnd 
650  7 Politik.|0(DE-588)4046514-7|2gnd 
650  7 Politischer Wandel.|0(DE-588)4175047-0|2gnd 
650  7 Rückständigkeit.|0(DE-588)4275511-6|2gnd 
651  0 South Asia|xDescription and travel. 
651  0 South Asia|xCivilization|xWestern influences. 
651  7 South Asia.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01244520 
651  7 India.|0(DE-588)4026722-2|2gnd 
651  7 Pakistan.|0(DE-588)4075812-6|2gnd 
651  7 Nepal.|0(DE-588)4041612-4|2gnd 
651  7 Tibet.|0(DE-588)4060036-1|2gnd 
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 
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