Golden oldies, no songs
SO MANY CINEMAS: The Motion Picture in India. By B. D. Garga. Eminence Designs, Bombay, 320pp. Available at Pounds 49.50 from Asian Bookshop, 112 Whitfield Street, London W1. ISBN 81 900602 1 X....
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The divineness of Devi
DEVI: Goddesses of India. Edited by John S. Hawley and Donna M. Wulff. University of California Press 352pp, Pounds 38.00and Pounds 13.95. ISBN 0 520 20057 8 and 20058 6. Goddess (Devi) worship is...
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Brands of tolerance
IN THE NAME OF THE SECULAR: Contemporary Cultural Activism in India. By Rustom Bharucha. Oxford University Press, 197pp, Pounds 15.00. ISBN 0 19 564222 8. In India secularism is a subject that...
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The Iron Duke's less famous footprints
THE MAKING OF ARTHUR WELLESLEY. By Anthony S. Bennell. Sangam 235pp, Pounds 17.95. ISBN 0 86311 601 9. During this the 50th anniversary of Indian independence, it seems appropriate to consider the...
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Lost, not forgotten, cities of the Indus
SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 1993. Edited by Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 445pp (Volume one), 442pp (Volume two), $195.00 (both volumes). ISBN 951 41 0729 2. The 70...
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A passport to enlightenment
SOUTHERN INDIA: Blue Guide. By George Michell. A and C Black 576pp, Pounds 16.99. ISBN 0 7136 4158 4. Among the many travel guides to India the new Blue Guide covering south India is the latest and...
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ELS
LAST week's article about Mr Roger Ward, the Association of Colleges' chief executive, alleged that ELS (Education Lecturing Services) had made payments to Mr Ward. The article made the erroneous...
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Archives state sparks fears
THE ROYAL Commission on Historical Manuscripts has voiced deep concern about the condition of heritage documents held by five "well established" universities. In its 1996/97 annual review, the...
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Britain blocks tenure resolution
BRITAIN and Australia have refused to support a Unesco declaration aimed at protecting academic tenure in higher education. The text, approved by the organisation's 186 member countries during its...
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Authors may miss out on copyright cash
ACADEMIC writers must keep hold of the copyright to their work or risk losing millions of pounds in income, the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society has warned. Authors will be able to claim...
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A suitable language?
As India embraces western affluence, more and more of its people want to learn English, the lingua franca of thought and commerce. But is their neglect of India's mother tongues a tragic error, asks...
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Intellectual seeding
Ravi Dayal charts the progress of the world's third largest publisher of books in English No one quite knows how many publishers of books there are in India, but estimates place the number at about...
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Science with spirit
Scientists, in tune with the people, are using theirinfluence to move them towards a modernity that is all their own, writes Yash Pal My working life started a couple of years after independence. I...
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Enter the Second Republic?
Will India remain the world's largest democracy? Meghnad Desai describes the changes needed to ensure it holds the title. Forty-seven years ago, on January 26 1950, India became a sovereign...
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Imagining India
Novelist Nayantara Sahgal reflects on the power of the word in creating India as a nation, 50 years after her uncle Jawaharlal Nehru's celebrated 'tryst with destiny' One cannot talk about India 50...