A Strange Kind Of Paradise  - India through Foreign Eyes

A Strange Kind Of Paradise - India through Foreign Eyes (English, Paperback, Miller Sam)

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A Strange Kind Of Paradise - India through Foreign Eyes  (English, Paperback, Miller Sam)

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    • Language: English
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Publisher: Penguin Random House India
    • Genre: History
    • ISBN: 9780143424024, 0143424025
    • Pages: 440
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    A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes, by Sam Miller, is a scholarly, hilarious, thought provoking, and delightfully eccentric work that discusses how India has been perceived as a country by foreigners.

    Summary of the Book

    This title talks about a strange kind of exploration of India’s past and present, from the perspective of a foreigner who has lived in India for several years. Sam Miller delves into the ways in which the ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Arabs, Africans, Europeans and Americans have imagined India. Spanning the centuries from Alexander the Great to Slumdog Millionaire, the author account features, among others, Thomas the Apostle, The Chinese Monk Xuanzang, Marco Polo, Allen Ginsberg, Babur, Clive of India, the Beatles and Steve Jobs. The book is interspersed with the story of his own 25-year long love affair with India.

    About Sam Miller

    Sam Miller was born and brought up in London. He studied history at Cambridge university and politics at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. He joined BBC in 1986 and has worked on and off for the network ever since. In the early 1990s, Miller was a BBC correspondent in Delhi and on his return to the UK in 1993, was the presenter of the radio programme South Asia report. He also became the head of the BBC Urdu service and eventually the managing editor, South Asia. He was posted back to Delhi in the year 2002 and has remained there since. He is mainly working for BBC Media Action, BBC’s International charity. He has also authored, Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity and Blue Guide India.

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    • 198 mm
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    • 129 mm
    Ratings & Reviews
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    Just bought the book and going through it. Have placed order for one more piece. Of course, this is a good book so far.... It helps you know the country better from an outsider's perspective. Many a times an outsider would be a better person to judge us than an insider. Would recommend for people who would want to know India Better....
    All the best to the author for his future work. Certainly not reading this because he has showered encomiums / eulogies.....in some parts....
    Pramod Reddy
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    A Most Entertaining Read

    A fascinating account of India seen through the eyes of a naturalised alien. Despite being an unabashed Indophile, Sam Miller takes a fairly objective view of all things Indian. The book is full of priceless nuggets of information, possibly unknown hitherto even to a well read Indian.
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    Very Informative

    This book is a very good read.
    Extremely informative and humorous throughout.
    One would need a dictionary though to keep track of Sam Miller's vocabulary.
    Definite buy for a person interested in historical facts and perceptions of India by foreigners through the ages
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    nanda

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    Aug, 2014

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    A Strange Kind of Paradise- What scholarship!

    This book is full of information and knowledge about India in different periods, yet in an irreverential manner,with a personal memoir running alongside.
    India is better seen by those who study and read older texts rather than who keep harping on its old glories without checking up facts.
    So now Darlymple,Susan Gole and Alice Albinia have company!
    Superb choice of words.Keep a dictionary handy.......
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    Apr, 2014

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