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The 468 million Hindus and 181 million Moslems who share the teeming subcontinent are divided by social and cultural differences that go far deeper than the economic and religious prejudices that divide, say, the Catholics and the Protestants of Northern Ireland. The Hindu inhabits a world peopled by deities, in...
The Hindu-Moslem struggles go back centuries. Some 1,500 years before Christ, tall, fair-skinned Aryans invaded the subcontinent, subjugated the dark-skinned Dravidians who inhabited it and imposed on them the caste system. But during the millenniums after Christ, plunderers from Central Asia-Turks, Persians and Afghans-brought...
After one night of terror, the storm's fury abated. Indian federal and state governments moved quickly to provide aid to the victims of Orissa. Soldiers helped in the digging-out process while military planes dropped supplies to the survivors. Menial laborers, most of them belonging to India'...
If the late J.P. Marquand had been crossed with Graham Greene, The Professor's Daughter might well have been the literary result. Here Read has zeroed in on another moral elitist, American style. Henry Rutledge is a double aristocrat-a professor at Harvard and the scion of an old...
And so George Jackson entered the barred world. His life and crimes up until this point were representative of those of most of the men serving time in California and throughout the country. Lower caste criminals as they had been lower caste citizens, Jackson and the majority of inmates in...