Portrait of India

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ISBN: 9780300055382 | 0300055382
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/1993

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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 to great acclaim and now reissued with a new preface by its renowned author, the book has a singular power to evoke the enormous variety of India for the Western reader.

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Forbidden to Come to the Shore
The Guide	p. 5
Son et Lumiere	p. 11
Birth Control	p. 14
College Girls	p. 19
Native Wood-Notes
All India Radio Music Festival	p. 29
The Two System; and Subbulakshmi's Voice	p. 35
Pupil	p. 40
Master	p. 46
The Sacred Handbook of the Arts	p. 60
Jazz in Bombay	p. 65
The Sacred River of the Hindus
The Ageless Festival	p. 77
The Loins of the Earth Are Betwixt the Ganga and the Yamuna	p. 93
From the Sindhu	p. 112
The Commingling Streams	p. 117
The Holy Hair of the Muslims
The Vale of Kashmir	p. 123
The Theft of Mohammed's Hair	p. 128
Believers at the Gate	p. 154
May Peace Be on Them	p. 160
The Himalayas: Toward the Forest of Arden and the Dead Land
Chini Hindi Bye-Bye	p. 167
NEFA	p. 184
Nagaland	p. 204
The McMahon Line	p. 219
Bhutan	p. 227
Sikkim	p. 234
Nepal	p. 250
Ladakh	p. 253
Tibet	p. 267
Interpretation Thereof	p. 279
Development: The Pulsating Giant, the Aging King, and the Strong Brown God
The Blast Furnace Is Alight	p. 285
On the Banks of the Potomac	p. 302
At the Confluence of the Volga and the Ganga	p. 311
The Richest Man in India	p. 332
Famine and the Masonry Across the Waters of the Krishna	p. 337
City of Dreadful Night
On the Bands of the Hooghly	p. 357
Come Again If You Leave the City	p. 370
It's the Crying Baby That Gets Picked Up	p. 379
Notes and Thoughts on Calcutta's Imperial Past	p. 391
One Life, One Chance	p. 407
The Poorest of the Poor	p. 422
Leaden Echo, Golden Echo
Reflections: "Gaze of Lazarus"	p. 437
Enclave: "Few Ways of Life Can Equal the Goan in Merriment and Mad Abandon"	p. 442
City: "Only Four Annas on the Mat"	p. 448
Arts: "'Om' on the Infant's Tongue"	p. 456
Religion: "We Don't Agree"	p. 463
State: "A Palanquin, a Parasol a Drum"	p. 477
Politics: "My Father's House"	p. 496
Village: "Revolution in the Heart and Revolution in the World"	p. 506
Glossary	p. 521
Index	p. 527
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