Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
Chester Beatty Library . Default .
PageMenu- Main Menu-
Page content

Catalogue Display

Incarnations: India in 50 lives

Incarnations: India in 50 lives
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
ISBN 024120822X (hbk.)
9780241208229 (hbk.)
Author Khilnani, Sunil 1960-
Title Incarnations : India in 50 lives / Sunil Khilnani
Publisher London : Allen Lane, 2016
Physical desc. xvii, 636 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 24 cm.
Note At head of front cover: "Based on the celebrated BBC Radio 4 series." CBL illustrations: p. [185] (In 07A.15).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 595-628).
Contents The Buddha: waking India up -- Mahavira: soldier of non-violence -- Panini: catching the ocean in a cow's hoofprint -- Kautilya: the ring of power -- Ashoka: power as persuasion -- Charaka: on not violating good judgment -- Aryabhata: the boat of intellect -- Adi Shankara: a god without qualities -- Rajaraja Chola: cosmos, temple, and territory -- Basava: a voice in the air -- Amir Khusrau: the parrot of India -- Kabir: 'Hey, you!' -- Guru Nanak: the discipline of deeds -- Krishnadevaraya: 'kingship is strange' -- Mirabai: I go the other way -- Akbar: the world and the bridge -- Malik Ambar: the dark-fated one -- Dara Shikoh: the meeting-place of the two oceans -- Shivaji: dreaming big -- Nainsukh: owner transfixed by goose -- William Jones: Enlightenment Mughal -- Rammohun Roy: 'humanity in general' -- Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi: bad-ass queen -- Jyotirao Phule: the open well -- Deen Daya: courtier with a camera -- Birsa Munda : 'Have you been to Chalkad?' -- Jamsetji Tata: making India -- Vivekananda: bring all together -- Annie Besant: an Indian Tomtom -- Chidambaram Pillai: swadeshi steam -- Srinivasa Ramanujan: the elbow of genius -- Tagore: unlocking cages -- Visvesvaraya: extracting moonbeams from cucumbers -- Periyar: sniper of sacred cows -- Iqbal: death for falcons -- Amrita Sher-Gil: this is me -- Subhas Chandra Bose: a touch of the abnormal -- Gandhi: 'in the palm of our hands' -- Jinnah: the chess player -- Manto: the unsentimentalist -- Ambedkar: building palaces on dung heaps -- Raj Kapoor: the politics of love -- Sheikh Abdullah: chains of gold -- V.K. Krishna Menon: sombre porcupine -- Subbulakshmi: opening rosebuds -- Indira Gandhi: the center of everything -- Satyajit Ray: India without elephants -- Charan Singh: a common cause -- M.F. Husain: 'Hindustan is free' -- Dhirubhai Ambani: fins.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A
India -- Biography
India -- History
.
Related Works Catalogue Record 17577
.
Add Title to Basket Catalogue Record 17577
.
Catalogue Information 17577 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 17577 Top of page .
Item Information
Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Status Due Date
10012360 954 KHI
 BS   . Available .  
Download Title Catalogue Record 17577
. Catalogue Record 17577 ItemInfo Beginning of record . Catalogue Record 17577 ItemInfo Top of page .