Mishra, Pankaj.
Butter chicken in Ludhiana : travels in small town India / Pankaj Mishra. - London : Picador, c2006. - xix, 273 p. ; 20 cm.
Previous ed.: New Delhi, Ind.; New York: Penguin, 1995.
A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra travelled through the small towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air; brash and ostentatious, kitschy and clamorous, here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young woman from Jhansi aspiring to be a beauty queen; a rich young man in Gujarat speaking casually of murdering Muslims; Naxalites in Bihar trying to foment revolution; small shopkeepers planning a vacation in London --- Mishra captured, with irony and humour, a people rushing headlong to their tryst with modernity. 'Butter Chicken in Ludhiana is a marvellous travel book about small-town India, where the village and the city, the folk and the kitsch, and the comic and the violent threaten to converge' Ashis Nandy 'A love-letter to the real republic. No other book defines as clearly, and with such troubled irony, our last decade of change' Amitava Kumar
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Mishra, Pankaj--Travel;--India.
Cities and towns--India.
Villages--India.
India--Description and travel.
India--Social life and customs.
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Butter chicken in Ludhiana : travels in small town India / Pankaj Mishra. - London : Picador, c2006. - xix, 273 p. ; 20 cm.
Previous ed.: New Delhi, Ind.; New York: Penguin, 1995.
A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra travelled through the small towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air; brash and ostentatious, kitschy and clamorous, here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young woman from Jhansi aspiring to be a beauty queen; a rich young man in Gujarat speaking casually of murdering Muslims; Naxalites in Bihar trying to foment revolution; small shopkeepers planning a vacation in London --- Mishra captured, with irony and humour, a people rushing headlong to their tryst with modernity. 'Butter Chicken in Ludhiana is a marvellous travel book about small-town India, where the village and the city, the folk and the kitsch, and the comic and the violent threaten to converge' Ashis Nandy 'A love-letter to the real republic. No other book defines as clearly, and with such troubled irony, our last decade of change' Amitava Kumar
9780330444125 (pbk.) : £8.99 0330444123 (pbk.) : £8.99
GBA669855 bnb
Mishra, Pankaj--Travel;--India.
Cities and towns--India.
Villages--India.
India--Description and travel.
India--Social life and customs.
915.40452