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Incarnations : India in 50 lives /
"An entertaining and provocative account of India's past, written by one of the country's leading thinkers. For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recaptur...
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London :
Penguin Random House,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- The Buddha : Waking India Up
- Mahavira : Soldier of Non-Violence
- Panini : Catching the Ocean in a Cow's Hoofprint
- Kautilya : The Ring of Power
- Ashoka : Power as Persuasion
- Charaka : On Not Violating Good Judgment
- Aryabhata : The Boat of Intellect
- Adi Shankara : A God Without Qualities
- Rajaraja Chola : Cosmos, Temple, and Territory
- Basava : A Voice in the Air
- Amir Khusrau : The Parrot of India
- Kabir : "Hey, You!"
- Guru Nanak : The Discipline of Deeds
- Krishnadevaraya : "Kingship Is Strange"
- Mirabai : I Go the Other Way
- Akbar : The World and the Bridge
- Malik Ambar : The Dark-Fated One
- Dara Shikoh : The Meeting-Place of the Two Oceans
- Shivaji : Dreaming Big
- Nainsukh : Owner Transfixed by Goose
- William Jones : Enlightenment Mughal
- Rammohun Roy : "Humanity in General"
- Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi: Bad-Ass Queen
- Jyotirao Phule : The Open Well
- Deen Daya : Courtier with a Camera
- Birsa Munda : "Have You Been to Chalkad?"
- Jamsetji Tata : Making India
- Vivekananda : Bring All Together
- Annie Besant : An Indian Tomtom
- Chidambaram Pillai : Swadeshi Steam
- Srinivasa Ramanujan : The Elbow of Genius
- Tagore : Unlocking Cages
- Visvesvaraya : Extracting Moonbeams from Cucumbers
- Periyar : Sniper of Sacred Cows
- Iqbal : Death for Falcons
- Amrita Sher-Gil : This Is Me
- Subhas Chandra Bose : A Touch of the Abnormal
- Gandhi : "In the Palm of Our Hands"
- Jinnah : The Chess Player
- Manto : The Unsentimentalist
- Ambedkar : Building Palaces on Dung Heaps
- Raj Kapoor : The Politics of Love
- Sheikh Abdullah : Chains of Gold
- V.K. Krishna Menon : Sombre Porcupine
- Subbulakshmi : Opening Rosebuds
- Indira Gandhi : The Center of Everything
- Satyajit Ray: India Without Elephants
- Charan Singh : A Common Cause
- M.F. Husain : "Hindustan Is Free"
- Dhirubhai Ambani : Fins.