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Mistaken Modernity: India between Worlds

Mistaken Modernity: India between Worlds

Author(s): Dipankar Gupta

Location(s): India

Genre(s): Nonfiction

Era(s): Various

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From Hindu notions of dirt, South Asia’s preference for women leaders to patronage in democratic politics, the author resolves many of the paradoxes of contemporary India in this book.

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The author contends, justly, that India’s fascination with western gadgetry and lifestyles has not brought modernity – The Economist

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