Sunil Khilnani was born in Delhi and educated at Cambridge. He was a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, has taught politics at Birkbeck College, University of London and is now based at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He is writing a biography of Nehru for Penguin.

Introduction - ideas of India; democracy; temples of the future; cities; who is an Indian?; epilogue - the garb of modernity.