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Nonfiction. Misconceptions about India and Indians abound, fed by the stereotypes created by foreigners, and the myths about themselves projected by Indians. In Being Indian, Pavan K. Varma demolishes these myths and generalizations as he turns his sharply observant gaze on his fellow countrymen to examine what really makes Indians tick what they have to offer the world in the 21dst century. Varma’s insightful analysis of the Indian personality and the culture that has created it reaches startling new conclusions on the paradoxes and contradictions that characterize Indian attitudes towards issues such as power, wealth and spirituality. |
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The Untouchables
by Narendra Jadhav
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Publisher: University of California Press
Pub. Date: January 2007
ISBN-13: 9780520252639 |
| Nonfiction. In this remarkable book, at last giving voice to India's voiceless, Narendra Jadhav tells the awe-inspiring story of his family's struggle for equality and justice in India. Based on his father's diaries and family stories, Jadhav has written the triumphant story of his parents--their great love, unwavering courage, and eventual victory in the struggle to free themselves and their children from the caste system. |
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India Unbound
by Gurcharan Das
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Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Pub. Date: February 2001
ISBN-13: 9780375411649 |
| Nonfiction. Acclaimed columnist Gucharan Das traces India's recent social and economic transformations in an eminently readable, impassioned narrative. Das tells the stories of the major players in a period of rapid and profound change and makes comprehensible and compelling the economic and political developments responsible for these changes. |
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Namasté America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis
by Padma Rangaswamy
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Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date: 2000
ISBN-13: 9780271019819 |
| Nonfiction. At some point during the 1990s the Asian Indian population in the United States surpassed the one million mark. Today's Indians in America are a diverse group. They come from every state in India as well as from around the globe: England, Canada, South Africa, Tanzania, Fiji, Guyana, and Trinidad. They also belong to many religious faiths, including Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. Many have high professional skills and are fluent in English and familiar with Western culture. They have settled throughout the United States, largely in metropolitan areas. Namaste America tells this story of Indian immigrants in America, focusing on one of the largest communities, Chicago. |
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Holy Cow
by Sarah MacDonald
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Publisher: Broadway Books
Pub. Date: April 2004
ISBN-13: 9780767915748 |
| Nonfiction. When the love of Macdonald's life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. Holy Cow is Sarah Macdonald's often-hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis, and Christians, and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis, and Bollywood stars. From spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life—and her sanity—can survive. |
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The Namesake
byJhumpa Lahirii
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date: January 2007 (paperback reissue)
ISBN-13: 9780618733965 |
| Fiction. In The Namesake, Jahiri enriches the themes of the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. |
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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Pub. Date: May 06, 2008 (paperback reissue)
ISBN-13: 9781416584070 |
| Fiction. Monica Ali's first novel is the deeply moving story of one woman, Nazneen, born in a Bangladeshi village and transported to London at age eighteen to enter into an arranged marriage. Vivid, profoundly humane, and beautifully rendered, Brick Lane captures a world at once unimaginable and achingly familiar. |
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Londonstani
by Gautam Malkani
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Publisher: Viking Penguin
Pub. Date: August 2007 (reprint)
ISBN-13: 9780143112280 |
| Fiction. Gautam Malkani's extraordinary comic novel portrays the lives of young Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu men in the ethnically charged enclave of one of the biggest western cities, London. A world usually-but wrongly-portrayed as the breeding ground for Islamic militants is, in actuality, a world of money flashy cars, cell phones, rap music and MTV, as well as rivalries and feuds, and the small-time crooks who exploit them. This is Malkani's hilarious depiction of multiculturalism among young men struggling to get by in a remorseless city. |
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