Peter Parker

From Scylax to the Beatles: the West’s lust for India

A review of A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes by Sam Miller. The country provoked anger and wonder in equal measure

Colonel James Tod, travelling by elephant through Rajasthan with his cavalry and sepoys (Indian school, 18th century)
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  • A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes

    Sam Miller

    Cape, pp. 422

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