Click here for NICC Library Webpage
Click here for NICC Library Webpage
 Search 
 My Account 
 ID Information 
 Calmar New Materials 
 Peosta New Materials 
   
Advanced AlphabeticalBasicHistory
Search:    Refine Search  
> You're searching: Northeast Iowa Community College
 
Item Information
 HoldingsHoldings
 
 
 More by this author
 
  •  
  • Khilnani, Sunil, author.
     
     Subjects
     
  •  
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
     
  •  
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
     
  •  
  • HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
     
  •  
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. -- Historical.
     
  •  
  • HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
     
  •  
  • India
     
  •  
  • India -- History
     
  •  
  • India
     
  •  
  • India
     
     Browse Catalog
      by author:
     
  •  
  •  Khilnani, Sunil, author.
     
      by title:
     
  •  
  •  Incarnations : a his...
     
     
     
     MARC Display
    Incarnations : a history of India in fifty lives / Sunil Khilnani.
    by Khilnani, Sunil, author.
    New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
    Description: 
    ix, 449 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
    Edition: 
    First American edition.
    Contents: 
    The Buddha : Waking India Up -- Mahavira : Soldier of Non-Violence -- Panini : Catching the Ocean in a Cow's Hoofprint -- Kautilya : The Ring of Power -- Ashoka : Power as Persuasion -- Charaka : On Not Violating Good Judgment -- Aryabhata : The Boat of Intellect -- Adi Shankara : A God Without Qualities -- Rajaraja Chola : Cosmos, Temple, and Territory -- Basava : A Voice in the Air -- Amir Khusrau : The Parrot of India -- Kabir : "Hey, You!" -- Guru Nanak : The Discipline of Deeds -- Krishnadevaraya : "Kingship Is Strange" -- Mirabai : I Go the Other Way -- Akbar : The World and the Bridge -- Malik Ambar : The Dark-Fated One -- Dara Shikoh : The Meeting-Place of the Two Oceans -- Shivaji : Dreaming Big -- Nainsukh : Owner Transfixed by Goose -- William Jones : Enlightenment Mughal -- Rammohun Roy : "Humanity in General" -- Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi: Bad-Ass Queen -- Jyotirao Phule : The Open Well -- Deen Daya : Courtier with a Camera -- Birsa Munda : "Have You Been to Chalkad?" -- Jamsetji Tata : Making India -- Vivekananda : Bring All Together -- Annie Besant : An Indian Tomtom -- Chidambaram Pillai : Swadeshi Steam -- Srinivasa Ramanujan : The Elbow of Genius -- Tagore : Unlocking Cages -- Visvesvaraya : Extracting Moonbeams from Cucumbers -- Periyar : Sniper of Sacred Cows -- Iqbal : Death for Falcons -- Amrita Sher-Gil : This Is Me -- Subhas Chandra Bose : A Touch of the Abnormal -- Gandhi : "In the Palm of Our Hands" -- Jinnah : The Chess Player -- Manto : The Unsentimentalist -- Ambedkar : Building Palaces on Dung Heaps -- Raj Kapoor : The Politics of Love -- Sheikh Abdullah : Chains of Gold -- V.K. Krishna Menon : Sombre Porcupine -- Subbulakshmi : Opening Rosebuds -- Indira Gandhi : The Center of Everything -- Satyajit Ray: India Without Elephants -- Charan Singh : A Common Cause -- M.F. Husain : "Hindustan Is Free" -- Dhirubhai Ambani : Fins.
    Summary: 
    "An entertaining and provocative account of India's past, written by one of the country's leading thinkers. For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world's largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars, and corporate titans--some famous, some unjustly forgotten--bring feeling, wry humor, and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own. As he journeys across the country and through its past, Khilnani uncovers more than just history. In rocket launches and ayurvedic call centers, in slum temples and Bollywood studios, in California communes and grimy ports, he examines the continued, and often surprising, relevance of the men and women who have made India--and the world--what it is. We encounter the Buddha, 'the first human personality'; the ancient Sanskrit linguist who inspires computer programmers today; the wit and guile of India's Machiavelli; and the medieval poets who mocked rituals and caste. In the twentieth century, Khilnani sets Gandhi and other political icons of the independence era next to actresses, photographers, and entrepreneurs. Incarnations is an ideal introduction to India--and a provocative and sophisticated reinterpretation of its history"---Provided by publisher.
    Genre: 
    Biography
    Biographies
    Notes: 
    "Originally published, in somewhat different form, in 2016 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    LocationCollectionCall No.CopyStatus 
    Calmar Campus LibraryCirculation Stacks (Calmar)954.009 Khi2016Checked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Peosta LibraryCirculation Stacks954.009 Khi2016Checked InAdd Copy to MyList

    Format:HTMLPlain textDelimited
    Subject: 
    Email to:


    Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9807
     Powered by SirsiDynix
    © 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.
    Horizon Information Portal