Best of
India

1968

Nine Man-Eaters & One Rogue


Kenneth Anderson - 1968
    Nine Man-Eaters & One Rogue is the exciting story of one man's efforts to save lives in the jungles of India. The author relates these true adventures and educates the reader in the complexities of the living jungle.

The Raj Quartet (1): The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion


Paul Scott - 1968
    Tolstoyan in scope and  Proustian in detail  but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence from Britain. The first novel, The Jewel in the Crown, describes the doomed love between an English girl and an Indian boy, Daphne Manners and Hari Kumar. This affair touches the lives of other characters in three subsequent volumes, most of them unknown to Hari and Daphne but involved in the larger social and political conflicts which destroy the lovers. In The Day of the Scorpion, Ronald Merrick, a sadistic policeman who arrested and prosecuted Hari, insinuates himself into an aristocratic British family as World War II escalates. On occasions unsparing in its study of personal dramas and racial differences, the Raj Quartet is at all times profoundly humane, not least in the author’s capacity to identify with a huge range of characters. It is also illuminated by delicate social comedy and wonderful evocations of the Indian scene, all narrated in luminous prose. The other two novels in the Raj Quartet, The Towers of Silence and A Division of the Spoils, are also available from Everyman’s Library. With a new introduction by Hilary Spurling(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Muslim Politics in Secular India


Hamid Dalwai - 1968
    It relates Muslim communalism to the make-up of the Indian Muslim mind and its historical background. Balanced and well documented, Mr. Dalwai's analysis of the origin and nature of Muslim communalism has earned him a rapidly increasing audience in recent years. His wide research on this subject leads him to make an eloquent and forceful plea for a movement for modernization, secularization and liberalization as the only long-term solution to the communal problem. Written in a refreshing, anecdotal style, these essays on the problem of communalism and its remedy will prove invaluable for an understanding of the Indian political scene. The author, Hamid Dalwai’s belongs to a middle-class Marathi speaking, Muslim family. A self-educated man, Mr. Dalwai has been active in Politics for many years and is an experienced journalist. In Maharashtra, he is known as a provocative publicist and also as an outstanding short story writer.

The Stolen Necklace: A Picture Story from India


Anne Rockwell - 1968
    A story, based on a tale from the Jataka, of a clever gardener who figured out a way to recover the princess' pearl necklace, stolen by a vain monkey.

The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi


Mahatma Gandhi - 1968
    The book picture is that of the cover of Volume 1.

The Yogi Cookbook


Yogi Vithaldas - 1968
    Recipes for a wide variety of vegetarian Indian dishes, detailed instructions on grinding one's own spices, ghee, etc.

On Indian Mahayana Buddhism


D.T. Suzuki - 1968
    T. Suzuki's writng on Indian Mahayana Buddhism edited by and with an introduction from Edward Conze.