{"product_id":"incarnations-9780141981437","title":"Incarnations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunil 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefies 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. -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown * The Independent *\u003cbr\u003eA 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. -- Tarquin Hall * The Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA tour de force of intellectual history, engagingly written and peppered with wry personal anecdotes. -- James Crabtree * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eScholarly and playful * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eKhilnani 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, ***** -- Sameer Rahim * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully 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, \u003ci\u003eIncarnations\u003c\/i\u003e 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. -- William Dalrymple * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eAn 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 -- Nilanjana S Roy * Business Standard, New Delhi *\u003cbr\u003eI enjoyed everything about this book -- Charles Allen * Literary Review *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732500689239,"sku":"9780141981437","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141981437.jpg?v=1719997160","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/incarnations-9780141981437","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}