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Through Indian eyes
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- Creator
- [edited by] Donald Johnson and Jean Elliott Johnson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Fifth revised edition
- New York : Council on International and Public Affairs ; [Irving, Tex.] : Distributed by Apex Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Series
- Physical Details
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- viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0938960555, 9780938960553, 0938960563, 9780938960560
- OCLC
- ocn192045785
- Previously published: 4th ed. 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pt. I: The wheel of life. Introduction ; Families in India ; Joint, nuclear, or single ; The banishment of Rama ; The student stage of life ; Arranging a marriage ; Viewing a prospective bride ; Arranging marriages on the Internet ; The debate over dowry ; A wife's Dharma ; Stories my mother told me ; The householder's Dharma ; What Is caste? ; A new champion of India's Dalits ; Scheduled castes, unscheduled change ; Kama in classical India ; Kama poetry ; Artha: survival and success ; The Hindu world view ; Nataraj ; Death: "lower the body to the ground" -- Pt. II: The historic tradition. Introduction ; Indian history: time line ; The discovery of India ; Letters from prison ; Ashoka ; Visitors agree ; The Muslims in India ; The British presence in India ; Macaulay's "Minute on education" ; English education in action ; History: fact or fiction ; And then Gandhi came ; Satyagraha ; The salt march ; Comparing Hindus and Muslims -- Pt. III: Modern India. Introduction ; Indian democracy: the Constitution ; Testing democracy ; Indians go to the polls ; Building a pluralistic nation ; India's new paths to economic growth ; Daily life in the new economy ; Child labor and education ; India in the global age ; India and the new world order ; The modernity of tradition