Made in India: The Story of India's People and of Their Gifts to the WorldKnopf, 1953 - 203 pages Discusses the history and culture of India and describes the arts and crafts, literature, religion, customs, and everyday life of the people. |
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... greatest beauty of the world , and peasant huts washed with cow dung . We hear of brave Sikhs who fear no bloodshed and of non - resisters who will not lift a hand to save themselves . We think of India as a land hard to understand , a ...
... greatest beauty of the world , and peasant huts washed with cow dung . We hear of brave Sikhs who fear no bloodshed and of non - resisters who will not lift a hand to save themselves . We think of India as a land hard to understand , a ...
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... greatest of Indian em- perors . We may even enter his bedroom . . . and see the very screens of beautiful stone tracery , the same Per- sian couplets , the identical ornamentation of gold and ultramarine on which Akbar feasted his eyes ...
... greatest of Indian em- perors . We may even enter his bedroom . . . and see the very screens of beautiful stone tracery , the same Per- sian couplets , the identical ornamentation of gold and ultramarine on which Akbar feasted his eyes ...
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... greatest and most sensitive instruments of music either originated in India or else were greatly developed there . These were the harp , the violin bow , the cross- blown flute . The music of India , so much older than even the greatest ...
... greatest and most sensitive instruments of music either originated in India or else were greatly developed there . These were the harp , the violin bow , the cross- blown flute . The music of India , so much older than even the greatest ...
Contents
OST CITIES OF INDIA Mohenjodaro Harappa | 1 |
OMA JUICE AND SONGS the Aryans | 13 |
TORIES WE LOVE TO TELL Early Indian Litera | 19 |
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