About this title: There can be few more discussed countries in the world today than India. In recent years it has shed its popular image as a poor, tradition-bound backwater to stand poised on the threshold of super-power status, rivalled only by China as the greatest winner in the post-Cold War world order. In "Vishnu's Crowded Temple" Maria Misra has written the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2008-03-31
ISBN-13:9780300137217ISBN:0300137214
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 3-31-08
ISBN-13:9780300137217ISBN:0300137214
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Allen Lane
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780713993677ISBN:0713993677
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Publisher: UK: Allen Lane, 2007. 9780713993677
ISBN-13:9780713993677ISBN:0713993677
Description: Hardback with dust wrapper. 9.5" x 6.25". xxxiii + 536 pages. Well illustrated with maps, photographs and diagrams. Excellent condition, like new. VG+/VG+. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Allen Lane
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780713993677ISBN:0713993677
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Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Allen Lane, London
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780713993677ISBN:0713993677
Description: New/New. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 9780713993677 There can be few more discussed countries in the world today than India. In recent years it has shed its popular image as a poor, tradition-bound backwater to stand poised on the threshold of super-power status, rivalled only by China as the greatest winner in the post-Cold War world order. In Vishnu's Crowded Temple Maria Misra has written the essential history to allow us to understand the fascinating historical trajectory of this emerging third ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008-03-31
ISBN-13:9780300137217ISBN:0300137214
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane, UK
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780713993677ISBN:0713993677
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780300137217ISBN:0300137214
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"Out of all the books on Indian history I've read recently, this one was the hardest to slog through. It's not a very long book, but the author's writing style is just very dry and not very engaging. Not to mention the editor in me kept finding errors in the text--spelling mistakes, punctuation errors--and it drove me nuts. I'm glad to be returning this one to the library."
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