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Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka
Armchair travelers, tourists, and students of contemporary Sri Lanka will relish this enthralling account.
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Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi
A deep sympathy and passion for the city animates the narrative. The book provides supreme background information about present-day Varanasi for those unfamiliar with India. Recommended for general collections.
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This book is highly recommended for anyone looking for background information on Delhi, as Dasgupta puts forth arguable theories about the city's history and the Punjabi psyche. Still, the author's account of the downside of the post-1991 free market economy and the pursuit of self-interest above all serves as a cautionary tale, doing for Delhi what Suketu Mehta's Maximum City accomplished for Mumbai.
Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
This book is highly recommended for anyone looking for background information on Delhi, as Dasgupta puts forth arguable theories about the city's history and the Punjabi psyche. Still, the author's account of the downside of the post-1991 free market economy and the pursuit of self-interest above all serves as a cautionary tale, doing for Delhi what Suketu Mehta's Maximum City accomplished for Mumbai.
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Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India
Spanning India, Burma (Myanmar), and America, this is an absorbing exploration of one man's life. There is some repetition, but the book turns many a stereotype about status on its head. For readers interested in South Asia and the South Asian diaspora.
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Delirious Delhi: Inside India's Incredible Capital
With its fresh insights, this book provides the western expatriate and visitor with an excellent introduction to what it means to live and work in Delhi. It nicely complements the information available in The Lonely Planet and other travel guides. Another book on this subject is Sam Miller's Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity.
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This spellbinding account of a story that needed to be told is highly recommended.
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
This spellbinding account of a story that needed to be told is highly recommended.
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Shanti Bloody Shanti: An Indian Odyssey
Smith's knowledge of India and Hindu mythology is shaky, but the narrative of this spiritual quest/drug-fueled odyssey is striking and even lyrical, and the tension builds rapidly to a haunting end. Readers who are intrigued by the lives of contemporary Western hippies in India will appreciate this book. It will also appeal to fans of Rory MacLean's Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India and Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love.
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Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
This title would be an appropriate choice for South Asia and South East Asia collections in academic libraries.
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