I enjoyed everything about this book
Charles Allen
Literary Review
An exceptionally liberating intellectual journey to take. Mr Khilnani's prose is light and fast-paced... [and his] ability to empathise with people long dead is also astonishing
Nilanjana S Roy
Business Standard, New Delhi
Beautifully written with both scholarship and an enviably light touch, thoughtfully ... Read moreconstructed and enviably erudite in its wide-ranging references, and as much at ease discussing higher mathematics and philosophy as politics and art, Incarnations is a major work by one of India's most impressive minds, and the best possible introduction to both the complexities and the charms of Indian history.
William Dalrymple
The Guardian
Khilnani is a warm, personable voice on the radio and in this beautifully illustrated book his personal touch has been preserved. It is hard to think of this mammoth task being executed any better.... Superb,





Sameer Rahim
The Telegraph
Scholarly and playful
The Telegraph
A tour de force of intellectual history, engagingly written and peppered with wry personal anecdotes.
James Crabtree
Financial Times
A majestic sweep of 2,500 years of Indian history...Khilnani is a rare blend of scholar and cracking travel writer, and his book is replete with distinguished characters little known in the West.
Tarquin Hall
The Sunday Times
Defies historical conventions...scholarly and accessible, lively and deeply serious. I confess I recognised only about 20 of the names and what I thought I knew was wrong or incomplete... revelatory, bold and contemplative.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
The Independent
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