The Living India - Its Romance And Realities (An Old And Rare Book)

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DURING the last few years I have been constantly invited to lecture on some aspect or other of Indian life and conditions, and have found a very great desire among my hearers for a book on India that is less serious than a history and less formal than a guide-book. To stimulate the interest has now come the White Paper, with the uprising against some of its provisions which has been indeed a phenomenon of 1933.

The classes who have given their sons to the rebuilding of this crashed sub-continent for many generations are now abstaining, or seeking to probe the conditions of the future before what has hitherto been the family destiny. The Living India aims at helping this spirit of inquiry, of giving a coup d'ail of history and peoples, the life of the Europeans and such matters as the winter visitor may care to take cognizance of at opening the shutter for a few seconds. The spelling of the Indian names herein is the illogical British spelling, that we all know from the days of Little Henry and his Bearer, and no attempt has been made to follow scientific rules. Many of the photographs have been lent by the unlimited courtesy of the Indian Railway Bureau ; others have been taken by the author so recently as 1933.

Where figures and data are given they are taken, for the most part, from the official publication, India in 1930-31, the latest available.

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