Abstract

Understanding India

The article presents information on the books "Understanding India," by Gertrude Marvin Williams and "Living India," by Savel Zimand. Williams and Zimand might, profitably, have exchanged titles. There is more of "living" India in "Understanding India" and more data, historical, political and social, in "Living India." Williams's book is an exciting series of adventures among the Indian people and their no less quaint British overlords. Zimand's book is not exciting. But it brings together in readable fashion a mass of shrewdly appraised information upon which a reader, desiring an introduction to India, can safely rely. The author knows of no book that puts the British in India-and particularly the women-in their proper place quite so well as "Understanding India."