Notes from another India
Material type: TextPublication details: London Pluto Press 1995Description: 229 pISBN: 2800745308397Subject(s): travel | India | Politics and governmentDDC classification: 954.052 Summary: Images of India as a land of ancient and unchanging tradition persist in the popular Western imagination and when India appears in the Western media, it is frequently as the site of communal violence, atrocities against women, casteism, backwardness, poverty and disease. Challenging stereotypic images, Notes from Another India is a journey through an India rarely seen by the visitor. Part-travel writing and part-reportage, by a journalist who knows the country well, Notes from Another India explores positive initiatives taken by the people's movements and grassroots organisations in present-day India. Evoking place, both rural and urban, and drawing on the personal accounts of activists, development practitioners and others from across the country, Jeremy Seabrook provides the general reader, the traveller and all those interested in India with a unique and positive insight to contemporary India.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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954.052 RAG/C Conspiracy to kill Rajiv Gandhi : from CBI files | 954.052 RAJ.2 Rajiv Gandhi's India | 954.052 RAJ.4 Rajiv Gandhi's India : a golden jubilee retrospective | 954.052 SEA/N Notes from another India | 954.052092 BRA/I An Indian political life:Charan singh and Congress politics,1957 to 1967 | 954.052092 HEA/R Rajiv Gandhi: the years of power | 954.052092 KAL/G Gods of power : personality cult & Indian democracy |
Images of India as a land of ancient and unchanging tradition persist in the popular Western imagination and when India appears in the Western media, it is frequently as the site of communal violence, atrocities against women, casteism, backwardness, poverty and disease.
Challenging stereotypic images, Notes from Another India is a journey through an India rarely seen by the visitor. Part-travel writing and part-reportage, by a journalist who knows the country well, Notes from Another India explores positive initiatives taken by the people's movements and grassroots organisations in present-day India. Evoking place, both rural and urban, and drawing on the personal accounts of activists, development practitioners and others from across the country, Jeremy Seabrook provides the general reader, the traveller and all those interested in India with a unique and positive insight to contemporary India.
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