An American Witness To India's Partition - Couverture rigide

Talbot, Phillip

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761936181 ISBN 13 : 9780761936183

Editeur : SAGE, 2007

Synopsis

This volume is a collection of Phillips Talbot's letters written between 1938 and 1950, on the buildup to the independence of India and Pakistan, and the early experiences of the new states. Talbot's letters and reports from the field, presented here in the original, include his first-hand observations on student life at Aligarh Muslim University, local life in a small Muslim community in Kashmir, a Vedic ashram in Lahore, Tagore's Shantiniketan, Gandhi's Sevagram, the Kodaikanal Ashram Fellowship, and Hindu and Muslim urban communities in Lahore and Bombay, and Afghanistan. For anybody wishing to get a ground-level view of South Asian society in its decisive decade, these letters from an American observer promise to be an enjoyable read.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Phillips Talbot is President Emeritus, The Asia Society, USA. A distinguished journalist, he was the India correspondent of the Chicago Daily News in 1946. In 1961 the Kennedy administration named him Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, covering the geographic area from Greece to Ceylon (Sri Lanka). He has served as Ambassador to Greece from 1965 to 1969, and is a trustee emeritus of the Aspen Institute, the US-Japan Foundation and a number of other Asia-related organizations. His writings include South Asia in the World Today (edited); India and America: A Study of Their Relations (co-authored with S. L. Poplai); India in the 1980s and numerous other articles and reports. 

In 2002 the Indian Government awarded him the Padma Shri. He has also received the (New Delhi) Institute of Economic Studies’ Bhartiya Shiromani Puraskar, the (Bombay) Indo-American Society’s Annual Citation, the (New York) Taraknath Das Foundation’s Distinguished Award, and the (Washington) Embassy of India’s Videsh Samman.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761936181
• ISBN 13: 9780761936183
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 440
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible