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THE HIGH ROAD TO CHINAShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize'An impeccably well-researched book, and it is hard to imagine this fascinating story being told with greater sensitivity or skill' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph'A vivid look at a lost world'Jonathan Mirsky, Spectator Books of the Year'Teltscher is a remarkable new historian . . . wholly original' William Dalrymple'Fascinating . . . an extraordinary narrative dominated by marvellous characters and told with a rare mixture of scholarly learning and enthusiast's fizz' Jan MorrisINDIA INSCRIBED'What is striking about India Inscribed is Teltscher's close attention to nuance and detail and the care with which she describes paradoxes, complexities and shifts in European accounts of India . . . Historians ought to welcome able works of literary scholarship like this' C. A. Bayly, TLSHOBSON-JOBSON'Teltscher's introduction to this new abridged edition is a model of scholarship and readability' Neel Mukherjee, The Times