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{{Infobox book<br />
| name = Karma Cola<br />
| author = Gita Mehta<br />
| language = English<br />
| country = India<br />
| genre = [[nonfiction]] [[journalism]]<br />
| publisher = [[Simon & Schuster]]<br />
| title_orig = <br />
| translator = <br />
| subject = India in the 1960s<br />
| pub_date = 1979<br />
| english_pub_date = <br />
| media_type = <br />
| pages = 210<br />
| oclc = 8660454<br />
| dewey = 954.04<br />
| congress = DS414<br />
| image = File:KarmaCola.jpg<br />
| caption = First edition<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Karma Cola'''''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281002.Karma_Cola|title=Karma Cola|website=Goodreads|access-date=2017-02-08}}</ref> is a non-fiction book about India written by [[Gita Mehta]] originally published in 1979 by [[Simon & Schuster]].<br />
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== Subject matter ==<br />
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The story begins in the late '60s, when hundreds of thousands of [[western world|Westerners]] descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives was to be found in the [[orient|East]]. An Indian writer who has also lived in England and the United States, Gita Mehta observed the spectacle of European and American "pilgrims" interacting with their hosts, and recorded her observations in ''Karma Cola''. It describes the [[tradition]]s of an ancient and long-lived society being turned into [[commodity|commodities]] and sold to those who don't understand them.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brown|first=Luke|title=Book Review ''Karma Cola'' by Gita Mehta|url=http://polosbastards.com/pb/book-review-karma-cola-by-gita-mehta/|accessdate=2 April 2011}}</ref><br />
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== Editions ==<br />
Reprints include: <br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Year !! Publisher !! Pages !! ISBN<br />
|-<br />
| 1980 || Jonathan Cape || 201 || 9780224017749<br />
|-<br />
| 1981 || Collins || 210 || 9780006360926<br />
|-<br />
| 1990 || Minerva || 210 || 9780749390693<br />
|-<br />
| 1991 || Fawcette Columbine || 193 || 9780449906040<br />
|-<br />
| 1993 || Penguin Books|| 193 || 9780140236835<br />
|-<br />
| 1994 || Vintage Books ||208 || 9780679754336 <br />
|-<br />
| 2010 || Random House || || 9781409042648<br />
|}<br />
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== References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian non-fiction books]]<br />
[[Category:Indian literature in English]]<br />
[[Category:Books about India]]<br />
[[Category:1979 non-fiction books]]<br />
[[Category:Books about spirituality]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian books]]</div>->Winterstein