As it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colo
In 1938, noting that the bulk of the Indian population formed a "e;landless proletariat"e; and despairing of the ability of the factionalized Indian community t
This book explores the festival of Thaipusam in terms of its own inner dynamics - the traditions and belief structures which ensure the festival's continuing re
This is a story of a school in the walled city of Old Delhi - the Anglo-Arabic Senior Secondary School. The school has its origins in Madrasa Ghaziuddin establi