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Americans, who are less troubled by this particular kind of snobbery, may wonder what it is all about. But Author Llewellyn has lived on both sides of the diphthong curtain (he has been both an enlisted man and a captain in the Welsh Guards), and he plays this theme until...
The Maharashtrians were warriors and once ruled central India from coast to coast. They looked down on the Gujaratis, who by caste and occupation were shopkeepers. But the British conquered the warriors and encouraged the shopkeepers. The proud Maharashtrians became the laborers of India's West Coast; the Gujaratis...
No one has ever made an authoritative estimate of the mental age of Big Joe Uwanawich, a high-caste Serbian gypsy who lives at 174 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. There is, however, no question but that Big Joe has been highly successful in evading all attempts to fit him into...
Among the show's most surprisingly low-priced hits were the Greek terra cottas (opposite}. Starting with the Tanagra woman and reading clockwise, their price tags read: $517.50, $115, $345 and $230. The makers of the terra cottas were low-caste artisans, often slaves, who turned out art...
There had been no such excitement since Independence Day in 1947, no such pomp since George V, King and Emperor, summoned the princes of India to pay him homage at a royal durbar in 1911. An army of cosmeticians did over New Delhi. Whitewash and fresh paint suddenly beautified the...