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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters

The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters

Dalrymple, William

Paperback

Series: Vintage Departures

Travel WritingIndia & South AsiaIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0307948900
ISBN13: 9780307948908
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 2 2012
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.21 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the age of darkness predicted by an ancient Hindu cosmology in a final epoch of strife and corruption, Dalrymple encountered a region that thrilled and surprised him. Venturing to places rarely visited by foreigners, he presents compelling portraits of a diverse range of figures--from a Hindi rap megastar through the Tamil Tigers to the drug lords of Pakistan. Dalrymple's love for the subcontinent comes across in every page, which makes its chronicles of political corruption, ethnic violence and social disintegration all the more poignant. The result is a dark yet vibrant travelogue, and a unique look at a region that continues to be marked by rapid change and unlimited possibilities as it struggles to reconcile the forces of modernity and tradition.

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