Review: Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives by Sunil Khilnani My rating: 5 of 5 stars 'India isn’t really a country, It is a sub-continent composed of nationalities, Hindus and Muslims being the two major nations.' This was Jinnah. He was the man who would be complicit in the partition of India, along with his Indian counterparts, in what would turn out to be one of the bloodiest events in the history of the world. But when reading anything that is related to India, we are taught of eras and empires and kingdoms. Rarely is an individual talked about much in the larger context, as a means of history. One of the reasons might be that it is so vast that even an individual can cover only a fairly small time scale. Perhaps Nehru, if the centerpiece, can tell us a bit about Modern India. But he will be spending much of that time in the northern part of the subcontinent and outside India itself, and very little in the southern parts of it. The geography plays a...