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An account of the seminal British travel writer's journeys through India. Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of traveling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt... Read Full Overview

Here is the splendor of the Indian subcontinent without losing sight of the human cost of all that complicated beauty . . . focuses on the workings of caste and class, on the speed with which India is changing, and on its striking contrasts.--(New York Times Book Review.