About the Book: Upcountry Tales: Once Upon a Time in the Heart of India
For over fifty years, Mark Tully has been one of the most celebrated observers
of Indian politics and society. In this collection, he returns to the territory
of his acclaimed and bestselling work of fiction, The Heart of India, to bring
us stories from the end of an era—a time that preceded the economic
liberalization of 1991, when India was at a crossroads; and a time that may not
be as firmly in the past as we imagine.
Set in the villages of eastern Uttar Pradesh during the second half