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Martin Moir, former lecturer at University College London, has written a
book entitled *Not Exactly Shangri-La*, which is due to be published in
Septmber 2009 by Rupa in India. if anyone is interested in reviewing
Martin's soon-to-be published work, please contact Martin directly (
[log in to unmask]).
Further details of the novel:
ABSTRACT OF NOVEL
NOT EXACTLY SHANGRI-LA
By Martin Moir
Timothy, a diffident young British academic, and Huma, a feisty young woman
from India, are two ‘foreign experts’ invited to Kalapur, a remote and
apparently peaceful Himalayan country, to advise on the preservation and
editing of an important monastic chronicle. But far from being a harmless
academic project, they soon discover that the publication of the chronicle
is being used by the authoritarian regime in Kalapur to suppress knowledge
of a past that threatens its own legitimacy. Moreover, far from being
peaceful, Kalapur turns out to be riven by a secret resistance movement led
by guerrilla fighters known as the migos, named after the yetis or wildmen
still believed to survive in the remoter parts of the country. Encouraged in
their historical quest by a sympathetic but enigmatic local abbot, Huma and
Timothy face some terrifying experiences before finally discovering what
really happened in the recent past, and in the process deepening their own
relationship.
At once adventure story, orientalist romance, psychological study and
serious enquiry into different views of the past, “Not exactly Shangri-la”
explores a fictional world that is deeply strange but strangely familiar,
sinister yet funny
Martin Moir (Note: To be published by Rupa, the Delhi publisher,
late Sept 2009)
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MARTIN MOIR
Born in London and educated at Oriel College Oxford and University College
London, Martin Moir was for many years deputy director of the British
Library’s Oriental and India Office Collections, as well as lecturer in
overseas administrative history at the School of Library, Archive and
Information Studies, University College London. He is the author or
co-editor of a number of publications dealing mostly with modern South Asian
history and archives, including ‘A General Guide to the India Office
Records’ (1988),‘Writings on India by John Stuart Mill’ (1990), ‘The Great
Indian Education Debate’ (1999), ‘J.S.Mill’s Encounter with India’ (1999),
and ‘Preserving Pakistan’s Past’ (2002). Since 1991 he has been an honorary
research fellow / research associate at the Department of Information
Studies, University College London.
Martin is married to Zawahir from Karachi, and during the past 25 years they
have both travelled extensively in South Asia, visiting and studying in many
archive and cultural centres.
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Gujarat Studies Association
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