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Pankaj Mishra

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Does my beard bother the Miu Miu bag lady?

  • 09 October 2006

My wife says I lose my sense of humour in airports. If true, this is because I am concentrating too hard on controlling my nerves

The last refuge of Old Europe

  • 12 June 2006

Fleeing modernity, Nietzsche fell for Turin's old-fashioned charm. There lies the city's salvation, writes Pankaj Mishra

A new sort of superpower

  • 30 January 2006

Introduction - India's dream of national strength and wealth is now a reality: its superpower status is indisputable. Yet it is rejecting cultural uniformity, writes Pankaj Mishra. It will be a long time before it is fully modern - and this may be a very good thing

The white man's burden. While colonialism took a terrible toll on the inhabitants of India, they were not its only victims. Pankaj Mishra on the men, women and children whose lives were transformed by serving Britain abroad

  • 19 September 2005

The Ruling Caste: imperial lives in the Victorian Raj
David Gilmour John Murray, 383pp, £25
ISBN 0719555345

Children of the Raj
Vyvyen Brendon Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 362pp, £20

Valley of the shadows. First the victims of British imperialism, then of India's "secular" ruling elite, Kashmir's Muslims have long endured oppression. Today, as conflict in their land continues to claim thousands, the Kashmiris themselves remain largely invisible

  • 30 August 2004

Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, rights and the history of Kashmir
Mridu Rai Hurst & Company, 335pp, £16.50 (pbk)
ISBN 1850657017

Languages of Belonging: Islam, regional identity and the making of Kashmir
Chitralekha Zutshi Hurst & Company, 359pp, £16.50 (pbk)

India's time of reckoning

  • 29 September 2003

The world's second-largest population of Muslims has until now resisted the pied pipers of jihad. But, provoked by Hindu nationalists, it too turns to violence

The first liberal imperialist

  • 24 March 2003

The great Mughal emperor Akbar believed in religious tolerance and reason. But his quest to achieve peace provides a cautionary example to today's western leaders

An excess of goodwill. Pankaj Mishra is disappointed by a respected writer's journey into bland provincialism

  • 25 November 2002

India in Slow Motion
Mark Tully Viking, 302pp, £17.99
ISBN 0670885584

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