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Pankaj Mishra

Articles by Pankaj Mishra

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NS Essay - How the British invented Hinduism

  • 26 August 2002

By "reviving" the Hindu religion, the middle classes of India hope to turn their country into a world power. Yet before the 19th century, no such religion existed

It's sex, Jim, but not as we know it. The Kamasutra was no more than a self-help manual for a bored, heartless Indian elite. So why is it so popular today in the decadent west? By Pankaj Mishra

  • 03 June 2002

Kamasutra
Mallanaga Vatsyayana. Translated by Wendy Doniger
and Sudhir Kakar Oxford World's Classics, 231pp, £14.99
ISBN 0192802704

The New Statesman Essay - Reflections on a war of ghosts

  • 11 February 2002

America, once more, is fighting in a country that it barely understands. Pankaj Mishra on a conflict where very little is as it seems

The power and the pathos

  • 24 September 2001

Terror in America: Essay 1 - Pankaj Mishra, half in love with America, pitied the Muslim jihadis he met because they would never know its generosity. But now, they can exult

Great games and proxy wars. Should we fear the Taliban as harbingers of world destruction? Or are they merely simple young men with stylish turbans and grand delusions? Pankaj Mishra visits a ravaged land

  • 02 July 2001

Reaping the Whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan
Michael Griffin Pluto Press, 283pp, £19.99
ISBN 0745312748

Lost in time. For Pankaj Mishra, growing up in India, Anglo-Indians were a source of romance and longing. But they were a community in decline, nostalgic for the privileges of the Raj

  • 15 May 2000

The Jadu House: intimate histories of Anglo-India
Laura Roychowdhury Doubleday, 291pp, £12.99
ISBN 0385410301

A place of greater danger. What is wrong with India? Two new books attempt to explain the historical background to the conflicts blighting the world's largest democracy

  • 24 April 2000

Kashmir in conflict: India, Pakistan and the unfinished war
Victoria Schofield, I.B.Tauris, 286pp, £14.95
ISBN 1860645453

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