Ian McDonald’s sci-fi book “River of Gods” which is set in India on its 100th birthday sounds very interesting.
From Boing Boing:
River is the story of India’s 100th birthday, when the great nation has fractured into warring subnations on caste, religious and cultural lines. Like McDonald’s other great novels, the story is beyond epic, with an enormous cast of richly realised characters and a vivid, luminous vision of techno-Hinduism that beggars the imagination.