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Passages to India
Kumar, Amitava | April 24, 2000 issue

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This article discusses some books related to India. The book "Hindoo Holiday," by J.R. Ackerley, was published in 1932 and has now been republished as a part of New York Review Books' Classics series. Ackerley's diary entries are a delightful mixture of nearly novelistic observations about a small group of characters that surround the Englishman in the small Indian town. The book "The Romantics," by Pankaj Mishra is based, for the most part, in Benares on the banks of the river Ganges. Samar is a bookish Brahman, a self-conscious provincial living alone and attempting to acquire an education.

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BOOKS; HINDOO Holiday (Book); ROMANTICS, The (Book); MISHRA, Pankaj; ACKERLEY, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967; BRAHMAN; HINDUISM; BRAHMANISM; INDIA
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