About the Book: Incarnations: India in 50 lives For all of Indias myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. Sunil Khilnanis Incarnations fills that space: recapturing the human dimension of how the worlds largest democracy came to be. In this stunning and deeply researched book, accompanying his major BBC Radio 4 series, Khilnani explores the lives of 50 Indians, from the spiritualist Buddha to the capitalist Dhirubhai Ambani --lives that light up Indias rich, varied past and its continuous ferment of ideas. Khilnanis trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, poets, stars, and corporate titans--some famous, some unjustly forgotten-bring feeling, wry