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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Giridharadas, Anand.

    India calling : an intimate portrait of a nation’s remaking / Anand Giridharadas.—1st ed.

        p. cm.

    Includes index.

    ISBN 978-0-8050-9177-9

  1.  India—Civilization—1947–   2.  National characteristics, East Indian.   3.  India—Social life and customs.   4.  India—Social conditions—1947–   5.  Social change—India.   6.  Families—India.   7.  Giridharadas, Anand—Family.   8.  Giridharadas, Anand—Travel—India.   9.  India—Description and travel.   I. Title.

    DS428.2.G46 2011

    954.05'3—dc22                                             2010018447

First Edition 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-5062-6

First Times Books eBook Edition: January 2011