By Kenneth L. Shropshire
Undoubtedly, this is a remarkable book with its aesthetic beauty of the narrative and critique. A review of such an unique book can only, at best, touch upon its fragments and undoubtedly with less elegance. In fact, this book is to be read and felt. --Vikash N. Pandey, 'Contemporary South Asia' Wallach shows much intellectual courage by confronting difficult dilemmas without resorting to glib antiprogress platitudes....[His] accounts convey the captivating qualities of the Asian landscape, villages, temple grounds, and architecture, and help orient the reader to what is so rapidly being lost. Wallach also clearly outlines the intellectual precedents of what has become the dominant paradigm of development work.. '--Professional Geographer'