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Boston University; University of Delhi.
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In this fascinating memoir, Sheila Dhar gives an insider's view of the world of Indian musicians and the now all but vanished life style of the Mathur Kayasthas of Delhi in the forties and fifties. With her insight and unique narrative talent, she has created an unforgettable human document
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Language: English Pages: 207 (36 B/W Illustrations) Preface This book was published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Indian Republic. Communication with the young readers is achieved through visual materials familiar to the Indian eye. The main thrust of the content is Indian culture and the Indian way of life. Traditional motifs child. As such the original design and format of the pages is an integral part of the author's intention. The present volume is therefore a reprint rather then a revised edition. At the same time there, are minor factual changes relating to population and development which will be helpful to the child who is reading the book today more than twenty years after it first appeared. Author's Note This book is intended for children who are beginning to ask adult questions about India. Since this stage of questioning might come before or after the age of twelve, no specific age is being mentioned. To children who accept and do yet ask, this book offers an opportunity to understand their involvement with India. It tries to say in easy and simple language what India is, where it is going and what it might now mean to the rest of the world. The book describes the efforts of India during the last forty-eighty years, and discusses how the quality of the changed in this country since we become independent. What is the Indian way of life that we are always talking about? What is the meaning to the Youngster of today of such terms as faith, heroism hard work and social transformation, which he comes across again and again? If economic progress is the most important consideration for a country as it something appears to be why should any young Indian want to stay here if he has an option to go elsewhere? Is the cultur
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Boston University; University of Delhi.
She is known for her writings about music and musicians, which included 3 books She also taught English literature and language at Delhi University.She was the wife of Philisophy North. Dhar, an economist and an advisor of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She was awarded a Summa Cum Laude for her Master of Arts by Boston University following which she taught Literature for a short while at Miranda House, and then joined the Government"s Publications Division.
Sheila had published a book of about the lifestyle of the Mathur Kayasthas in the Delhi of the 1940s and "50s providing a glimpse of the old Delhi, which included her experiences with life in bureaucracy and anecdotes from the lives of musicians like Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Kesarbai Kerkar, Pran Nath, and Begum Akhtar.
(In this fascinating memoir, Sheila Dhar gives an insider'...)
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