A 50-part history of India seen through the extraordinary stories of 50 Indians.
Sunil Khilnani is the author of the acclaimed and influential The Idea of India (Penguin). He is currently Avantha Professor and Director of the India Institute at King's College London.
Defies historical conventions...scholarly and accessible, lively
and deeply serious. I confess I recognised only about 20 of the
names and what I thought I knew was wrong or incomplete...
revelatory, bold and contemplative.
*The Independent*
A majestic sweep of 2,500 years of Indian history...Khilnani is a
rare blend of scholar and cracking travel writer, and his book is
replete with distinguished characters little known in the West.
*The Sunday Times*
A tour de force of intellectual history, engagingly written and
peppered with wry personal anecdotes.
*Financial Times*
Scholarly and playful
*The Telegraph*
Khilnani is a warm, personable voice on the radio and in this
beautifully illustrated book his personal touch has been preserved.
It is hard to think of this mammoth task being executed any
better.... Superb, *****
*The Telegraph*
Beautifully written with both scholarship and an enviably light
touch, thoughtfully constructed and enviably erudite in its
wide-ranging references, and as much at ease discussing higher
mathematics and philosophy as politics and art, Incarnations is a
major work by one of India's most impressive minds, and the best
possible introduction to both the complexities and the charms of
Indian history.
*The Guardian*
An exceptionally liberating intellectual journey to take. Mr
Khilnani's prose is light and fast-paced... [and his] ability to
empathise with people long dead is also astonishing
*Business Standard, New Delhi*
I enjoyed everything about this book
*Literary Review*
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