India: A Portrait

A monumental biography of the Indian subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.

Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. With a familiarity and insight few Westerners could approach, he provides a vital corrective to the many outdated notions about a uniquely dynamic and consequential nation.

Author: Patrick French
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/05/2012
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.08w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780307473486
ISBN10: 0307473481
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries
- History | Asia | South | General
- Political Science | World | Asian

About the Author

Patrick French was born in England in 1966 and studied literature at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Younghusband; Liberty or Death; Tibet, Tibet; and The World Is What It Is, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize. French is the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. He lives in London.