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From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond
Arcade
June 2006
On Sale: June 1, 2006
420 pages
ISBN: 1559708034
EAN: 9781559708036
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation
was born. It has 17 major languages and 22,000 distinct
dialects. It has over a billion individuals of every ethnic
extraction known to humanity. It has a population that is 32
percent illiterate, but also one of the worlds largest pools
of trained scientists and engineers. Its ageless
civilization is the birthplace of four major religions, a
dozen different traditions of classical dance, and 300 ways
of cooking a potato. Shashi Tharoors INDIA is a fascinating
portrait of one of the worlds most interesting countriesits
politics, its mentality, and its cultural riches. But it is
also an eloquent argument for the importance of India to the
future of America and the industrialized world. With the
energy and erudition that distinguished his prize-winning
novels, Tharoor points out that Indians account for a sixth
of the worlds population and their choices will resonate
throughout the globe. He deals with this vast theme in a
work of remarkable depth and startling originality,
combining elements of political scholarship, personal
reflection, memoir, fiction, and polemic, all illuminated in
vivid and compelling prose.
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