This collection of diary entries, pieces of poems, personal reflections, and other notations written by Allen Ginsberg (poet + prophet) reveals a lot not only about Ginsberg, but about India itself. The conditions on the streets of Calcutta, Bombay, and other Indian cities are presented in stark clarity; many of the images he invokes are startling (like the burning ghats, or burial mounds), and sometimes even disturbing, but they are always described in a way that is at once personal and human. Ginsberg frequently writes about different Hindu gods and goddesses, reflecting his deep interest in and knowledge of Indian culture. There are a series of photographs that compliment the written words very well; as opposed to the original printing of this book, there are several new photographs included. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Allen Ginsberg, the Beats, Poetry, India, or the human spirit and it's compassionate nature....

The book provides indepth knowledge about the 'how and why' of the growth of entrepreneurs in Gujarat, India. It is a must read for researchers and scholars interested in rigorous analysis and historical facts regarding entrepreneurs.

Kudos Makrand Mehta!

Please give me more..............

This book was fascinating. Religion is so well written, articulate, and well researched. I suggest if you have interest at all in this topic, that you add Indian Religion to your shopping cart. Burghart's idealism is something to be admired and aspired to.

Kahrs deals with some classical Indian theories of meaning focusing on the Kashmir Shaivite use of those theories in the classic commentaries of Sivopadhyaya, Abhinavagupta, and Ksemaraja as they analysis of "Bhavairava." It is an excellent account of how sacred terms carry meaning through semantic contexts.

Author is British journalist James Cameron (the man who heard the famous words of a Gandhi staffer, to the effect that it costs a fortune to keep Gandhiji in his simple lifestyle).

This short but meaty book is a loving portrait of a marvelous country. Cameron uses the incident of a horrific car accident he suffered in Bangladesh to tie together his own sense of mortality and India's great endurance.

Pace can be a little rough at times, but that is the only detraction from this beautiful, appreciative look at India and its foibles, humanity, grace, sufferings. His treatment of conversations (with little hints of well-observed Indglish) are a joy to read. Many tender and thoughtful passages about mankind, but it's really a very personal memoir of Cameron's ongoing yet troubled love affair with a nation.

Indispensible part of any India-phile's library, great pre-departure (or take-along) reading for anyone going there.

Using that most famous identity trafficker Sir Richard Burton as a starting point Parama Roy is concerned with examining colonial mimicry (which has been much discussed by figures such as Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha)first as it functioned in colonial India but also as it continues to function in postcolonial Indian life, especially in regards to issues of national identity. Following a chronological trajectory beginning with Burton the second essay discusses the cult of Kali worshipping assassins known as the thugs who plied their own talents at mimicry to lure unsuspecting travelers to their death. The thugs identity altering talent challenged in most interesting ways British assumptions about Indian identity and knowability. Along with a history of the thug sect and the detectives who had to penetrate the secret order is a discussion of John Master's novel and the Merchant Ivory film version of that novel, The Deceivers. The third chapter deals with the Anglo-Indian Kipling, both the Strickland stories and the novel Kim. Roy is careful to explain that Kipling felt the Anglo-Indian(which Kipling himself was) to be quite distinct from the Englishman, and therefore in a unique position to understand India in ways the Englishman could not. Into her examinination of Kim whose identity is an always shifting discourse between traditionally "English" and traditionally "Indian" roles(which are never seen to be fixed in any of the characters only affirmed and reaffirmed in a continual exchange), she inserts a discussion of the nature of nationalism. Like the mimic man or mimic woman a nation must continually define itself against what it is not and it does this at borderlands both literal(India that which is not England)and other borderlands as well(man/woman, Muslim/Hindu) in an ongoing "derivative discourse" . This essay opens the way to the final three which all deal with female figures and how careful their roles have to be staged in order for them to play a part in Indias national polity.
The first is the story of a western womans religious discipleship to an Indian guru and how her willing display of subjugation was used by him to display his own masculinity and thereby offer Indian men an example of what qualites were needed to become a self-governing nation. The second is the story of a 16 year old Indian poetess who on a visit to England is refashioned from brilliant protege writing brilliant Tennyson flavored verse into an "authentic" Indian poet by English Orientalists. The essay traces her development from poet who champions the traditional devotionary role of women to her own lived role as well known figure alongside Gandhi. Roy shows what an infectious speaker she was but also what a troubling presence she was in her silk robes and jewelry next to the ascetic Gandhi. The last essay deals with the way a film actress came to represent Mother India by playing the role in a movie that made her not just a star but a national figure representing Mother India to all despite the fact that she was a Muslim. Roys explanation of the dynamic of this film stars god-like status which had always to be staged(as she was a Muslim)is a fitting finale to this intriguing book of intriguing identities trafficking at the borderlands of India.

This book is a collection of letters between Indian soldiers and their families in the First World War, translated into English from the various languages in which they were originally written. Many thousands of soldiers from what was then the British Empire fought for the Allies in WW1, and a large number of them came from India--Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims. They had enlisted for traditional warfare in South Asia, and nothing could have prepared them for what they found when they arrived in the trenches of the Western Front. Their accounts of their experiences are fascinating, powerful and moving. David Omissi, the editor, provides an excellent introduction and gives useful background information. I strongly recommend this book.

Although published in 1981, this book is still the only comprehensive publication on the stylistic evolution of the metal sculptures of Northern India, the Himalayas and Tibet, as well as those made in China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This book, of which copies are very hard to get, represents an indispenable reference work for every scholar, collector and dealer in the field of Oriental art. See also[a website] for other outstanding publications in the field of Buddhist sculptures by Ulrich von Schroeder.

Cricketer turn politician Imran Khan has written this book to introduce the rich culture of Pakistan. Although not very fluent in his writing; but he surely is a very keen observer. He has done a good job by depicting the Pakistani culture in this book.