Mishra: 222 books
Temptations of the West
How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
A vivid, often surprising account of South Asia today by the author of An End to Suffering
In his new book, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on travels that are at once epic and personal. Traveling in the changing cultures of South Asia, Mishra sees the...
A Business of State
Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of the Company’s beginnings in the early seventeenth century has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra’s...
by Jubanashwa Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Jubanashwa Mishra had spent 28 weeks trying out 28 jobs a challenge that had seen him travel more than 15,000 miles across India. - Daily Mail, UKA bid to tell Indian parents that the stereotypical engineering or medical degree is not every child's dream - Times of IndiaJubanashwa Mishra refuses to...
I, The Salt Doll
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Sushila Lotlikar was barely in her teens when tragedy forced her to give up her education and join Parshwanath Altekar’s Little Theatre in Mumbai in 1940. But the young Konkani girl soon became a hit on the Gujarati stage and went on to storm the Marwadi stage. And then, at the age of twenty-one,...
An End to Suffering
The Buddha in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
An End to Suffering is a deeply original and provocative book about the Buddha's life and his influence throughout history, told in the form of the author's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in a world where class oppression and religious violence are rife, and where poverty and terrorism...
by Govind Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What attracted me towards Govind’s stories was a strange kind of innocence which is reflected there. The injured in the story be it a person, a character or his/her feelings about whom we don’t know much nor the author tells much, just the feeling of being injured... it comes out with such passion...
Aus den Ruinen des Empires
Die Revolte gegen den Westen und der Wiederaufstieg Asiens
Language: German
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Asiens Antwort auf den westlichen Imperialismus: "Provokant, beschämend und überzeugend" The TimesNachdem die letzten Erben des Mogul-Reiches getötet und der Sommerpalast in Peking zerstört war, schien die asiatische Welt vom Westen besiegt. Erstmals erzählt der Essayist und Schriftsteller Pankaj...
by Pankaj Mishra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 22, 2017
¿Cómo podemos explicar los orígenes de la gran oleada de odios que parecen inevitables en nuestro mundo -desde los francotiradores norteamericanos y el DAESH a Donald Trump, desde un aumento del nacionalismo vindicativo en todo el planeta al racismo y la misoginia en las redes sociales?- En este...
From the Ruins of Empire
The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world
A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently,...
by Vivek Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Beginning Apache Cassandra Development introduces you to one of the most robust and best-performing NoSQL database platforms on the planet. Apache Cassandra is a document database following the JSON document model. It is specifically designed to manage large amounts of data across many commodity servers...
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery,...
Desis Divided
The Political Lives of South Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
For immigrants to America, from Europeans in the early twentieth century through later Latinos, Asians, and Caribbeans, gaining social and political ground has generally been considered an exercise in ethnic and racial solidarity. The experience of South Asian Americans, one of the fastest-growing immigrant...
Bollywood Cinema
Temples of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film...
Das Zeitalter des Zorns
Eine Geschichte der Gegenwart
Language: German
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Wie können wir den Ursprung des Hasses erklären, der unsere Welt überzieht – von Amokläufern über den IS bis hin zu Donald Trump, von rachsüchtigem Nationalismus bis zu Rassismus und Frauenfeindlichkeit in den Sozialen Medien? Der britisch-indische Intellektuelle Pankaj Mishra gibt in seinem...