Portrait of India
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Portrait of India
Yale University Press, 1993
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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"Originally published 1970 by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux."--T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Stretching from the snowcapped Himalayas to the droughtprone state of Tamil Nadu, India is a vast and enigmatic country, full of contrasts. "Portrait of India" presents Ved Mehta's impressions of his native land - his first-hand report on India's villages and cities, its religions, politics and wars, its poets, philosophers, maharajas, and priests. Published in 1970 and now reissued with a new preface by its author, the book evokes the enormous variety of India for the Western reader.
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE 1- Forbidden to Come to the Shore The Guide Son et Lumiere Birth Control College Girls II: Native Wood-Notes All India Radio Music Festival The Two Systems and Voice Pupil Master The Sacred Handbook of the Arts Jazz in Bombay III: The Sacred River of the Hindus The Ageless Festival The Loins of the Earth are Betwixt the Ganga and the Yamuna From the Sindhu The Conuningling Strewns IV: The Holy Hair of the Muslims The Vale of Kashmir The Theft of Mohammed's Hair Believers at the Gate May Peace Be them V: The Himalayas Towards the Forest of Arden and the Dead Land Chini Hindi Bye-Bye NEFA Nagaland The McMahon Line Bhutan Sikkim Nepal Ladakh Tibet Interpretation There of BOOK TWO VI Development: The Pulsatiny Giant the Aginti King, and the strong brown god The Blast Furnace is Alight On the Banks of the Potomac At the Confluence of the Volga and the Ganga The Richest Man in India Famine and the Masonry Across the Waters of the Krishna VII: City of Dreadful Night On the Banks of the Hoogly Come Again if You Leave the City It's the Crying Baby that Gets Picked Up' Notes and Thoughts on Calcutta!s Imperial Past One Life, One Chance The Poorest of the Poor VIII leaden Echo, Golden Echo Reflections: "Gaza of Lazarus" Enclave: "few Ways of Life Can Equal the Goan in Merriment and Mad Abandon" City: "Only Four Annas on the Mat" Arts: "'Om'oii the Infants Tongue" Religion: "We Don't Agree" State: "A Palanquin, a Parasol, a Drum" Politics: "My Father's flouse" Village: "Revolution in the Heart and Revolution in the World" Glossary Index.
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