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Author Paine, Jeffery, 1944-

Title Father India : how encounters with an ancient culture transformed the modern west / Jeffery Paine.

Publication Info. New York, NY : HarperCollins, [1998]
©1998

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  954 PAINE    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  954 P145F    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description vii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction: Travels in Alternative Modernity -- pt. I. Society. 1. The Great Game Gone Mad. 2. Old Priestess for a New Politics -- pt. II. Self. 3. Rites Europeans Seldom Shared. 4. Head of Darkness -- pt. III. Universe. 5. Spirituality's Back Door. 6. The Gandhian Century -- Conclusion: At the End of the World -- Epilogue: Trying to Remember the Twentieth Century -- Appendix. Interpreting the Interpreters.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index.
Subject India -- Description and travel.
Travelers -- India.
Europeans -- India.
India -- Civilization.
ISBN 0060173033
9780060173036
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