Notes from Another India

by Jeremy Seabrook

Overview

Images of India as a land of ancient and unchanging tradition persist in the popular Western imagination and when India appears in the Western media, it is frequently as the site of communal violence, atrocities against women, casteism, backwardness, poverty and disease. Challenging stereotypic images, Notes from Another India is a journey through an India rarely seen by the visitor. Part-travel writing and part-reportage, by a journalist who knows the country well, Notes from Another India explores positive initiatives taken by the people’s movements and grassroots organisations in present-day India. Evoking place, both rural and urban, and drawing on the personal accounts of activists, development practitioners and others from across the country, Jeremy Seabrook provides the general reader, the traveller and all those interested in India with a unique and positive insight to contemporary India.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745308395
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Publication date:	07/28/1995
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.32(w) x 8.47(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeremy Seabrook is a journalist and writer who has written for the New Statesman, Guardian, Time, and Independent. He writes plays for stage and TV and is the author of many books, including Pauperland: Poverty and the Poor in Britain and The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Chilika
2 Picture of Puri
3 Uttar Pradesh
4 Delhi
5 Uttar Kannada
6 Calcutta
7 Indian Summer
8 Bangalore
9 Bombay
10 Curses Ancient and Modern\
11 Bhim, Rajasthan: Fighting Feudalism
12 Andhra Pradesh
13 Chattisgarh: The Chattisgarh Liberation Front
14 The Prospect for India
Glossary
Index

Editorial Reviews

'Seabrook has chosen to describe an India so particular, so far off the beaten track, and so actual that, in his painstaking reconstructions of scenes, his careful listening and reporting of people's words, and his lucid exposition of present-day realities, he succeeds where so many have failed ... A powerful book, and a clear-eyed account presented with sympathy, insight and conviction. Only those who truly love India can look at her with such a penetrating gaze.' --Resurgence

From the Publisher

Seabrook has chosen to describe an India so far off the beaten track and so actual that, in his painstaking reconstructions of scenes his careful listening and reporting of people's words, and his lucid exposition of present-day realities, he succeeds where so many have failed...A powerful book, and justifiably an angry one too - a clear-eyed account presented with sympathy, insight and conviction.

Resurgence