Mishra, Pankaj. <br/><br/>
Butter chicken in Ludhiana :  travels in small town India / 
Pankaj Mishra. 
 - London :  Picador,  c2006. 
 - xix, 273 p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Previous ed.: New Delhi, Ind.; New York: Penguin, 1995. 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780330444125 (pbk.) :  £8.99 0330444123 (pbk.) :  £8.99 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA669855  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Mishra, Pankaj--Travel;--India.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cities and towns--India.<br/>Villages--India.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--Description and travel.<br/>India--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>915.40452