Description
| Product ID: | 9780099268222 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Snakes And Ladders |
| Authors: | Author: Gita Mehta |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Asian history, History, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, Asian history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, India |
| Description: | With a novelist's eye for detail and colour, Gita Mehta writes of the continent of contradictions that is host to one-sixth of the world's population. It has the world's largest film industry, and the world's oldest religions. Now as never before, the world wants to know what contemporary India is all about. With a novelist''s eye for detail and colour, Gita Mehta writes of the continent of contradictions that is host to one-sixth of the world''s population. The world''s largest democracy, it still practices the caste system. It''s a burgeoning economic superpower, and one of the poorest nations on earth. It has the world''s largest film industry, and the world''s oldest religions. It is an ancient civilisation celebrating fifty years as a modern nation, entering a new international order many believe will belong to China and India. Now as never before, the world wants to know what contemporary India is all about. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1998-03-26 |
