Specification:
- Publisher : Indica Books
- By : Alvaro Enterria
- Cover : Hardcover
- Edition : April 30, 2010
- Pages : 588
- Weight : 800 gm.
- Size : 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 818656991X
- ISBN-13 : 978-8186569917
- Product Code : BK14201
Description:
Indian society is manifold and extremely complex. The richness of the Indian subcontinent defies and exceeds all facile explanations or generalizations, and cannot be adequately interpreted through Western concepts.
This book tries to clear a path towards an understanding of this immense ountry, home to a civilization that has endured without interruption or millennia. In this small encyclopaedia of India, the author explains the roots and foundations of Indian civilization, covering almost every spect of indian culture; its broad topics include History, Religion, Society, Arts, the State, and Travel. Offering an illuminating selection of information concerning many aspects of India, this is surely among the most complete cultural guides about this country and its varied cultures.
About Author:
Since his first travel in 1981, Alvaro Enterria has made the knowledge of India his passion. He has lived and worked in India since 1989. He is a partner of the book company Indica Books, and lives in Varanasi with his wife from Orissa and their two children.
Alvaro Enterria has translated from Hindi and English into Spanish various short stories of modern Indian literature, which formed the book La aldea y la ciudad. Antologia de relatos cortos de la literatura contemporanea de la India (1998), and several short stories of the renowned Hindi writer Premchand, published under the name Premchand: Antologia de cuentos (2002).
In 2006 he published in Spanish La India por dentro. Una guia cultural para el viajero, a cultural guide trying to explain in depth to tourists and visitors many aspects of Indian culture and society which are generally bad known or misunderstood. The guide was well received and became a classic book on India. The present publication is an English translation of that book, of which an Italian edition has also appeared.
Mark Tully is well known in India. He was born in Calcutta and educated in England. He spent over twnety years of his life as BBC Delhi Correspondent and covered many of the major events in South Asia, inclulding the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Indian Emergency, the trial and hanging of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Operation Blue Star, the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, the destruction of the Ayodhya Mosque, and the Bhopal gas disaster. After leaving the BBC he continued to live in Delhi with his partner Gillian Wright and work as a freelance broadcaster, journalist and writer. He has written several books on India.
Description
Specification:
- Publisher : Indica Books
- By : Alvaro Enterria
- Cover : Hardcover
- Edition : April 30, 2010
- Pages : 588
- Weight : 800 gm.
- Size : 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 818656991X
- ISBN-13 : 978-8186569917
- Product Code : BK14201
Description:
Indian society is manifold and extremely complex. The richness of the Indian subcontinent defies and exceeds all facile explanations or generalizations, and cannot be adequately interpreted through Western concepts.
This book tries to clear a path towards an understanding of this immense ountry, home to a civilization that has endured without interruption or millennia. In this small encyclopaedia of India, the author explains the roots and foundations of Indian civilization, covering almost every spect of indian culture; its broad topics include History, Religion, Society, Arts, the State, and Travel. Offering an illuminating selection of information concerning many aspects of India, this is surely among the most complete cultural guides about this country and its varied cultures.
About Author:
Since his first travel in 1981, Alvaro Enterria has made the knowledge of India his passion. He has lived and worked in India since 1989. He is a partner of the book company Indica Books, and lives in Varanasi with his wife from Orissa and their two children.
Alvaro Enterria has translated from Hindi and English into Spanish various short stories of modern Indian literature, which formed the book La aldea y la ciudad. Antologia de relatos cortos de la literatura contemporanea de la India (1998), and several short stories of the renowned Hindi writer Premchand, published under the name Premchand: Antologia de cuentos (2002).
In 2006 he published in Spanish La India por dentro. Una guia cultural para el viajero, a cultural guide trying to explain in depth to tourists and visitors many aspects of Indian culture and society which are generally bad known or misunderstood. The guide was well received and became a classic book on India. The present publication is an English translation of that book, of which an Italian edition has also appeared.
Mark Tully is well known in India. He was born in Calcutta and educated in England. He spent over twnety years of his life as BBC Delhi Correspondent and covered many of the major events in South Asia, inclulding the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Indian Emergency, the trial and hanging of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Operation Blue Star, the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, the destruction of the Ayodhya Mosque, and the Bhopal gas disaster. After leaving the BBC he continued to live in Delhi with his partner Gillian Wright and work as a freelance broadcaster, journalist and writer. He has written several books on India.
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