Gifts of Passage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gifts of Passage write by Santha Rama Rau. This book was released on 1961. Gifts of Passage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Autobiographical accounts, travel sketches, and reminiscences, many of them reprints of former magazine articles.
Home to India
Home to India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Home to India write by Santha Rama Rau. This book was released on 1945. Home to India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
East of Home
East of Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East of Home write by Santha Rama Rau. This book was released on 2019-08-18. East of Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1947, Santha Rama Rau went to Japan with her father, India’s ambassador to Tokyo. A year later, she went to China with friends, hitchhiked to remote provinces of the northwest, and traveled through Indo-China and Siam to Indonesia to live for several months in a Balinese village. East of Home is the report of a fascinating trip, full of information about the people of Asia, their customs, theater and dance. It also shows how a young Indian woman, educated in the West, encounters Asia for the first time and discovers herself as an Asian. “A first-rate and deceptively informal account of a recent journey through Asia.” —The New Yorker “An informal and pleasantly engaging book about [Santha Rama Rau’s] travels in the Far East... personal, colored by her acute consciousness of being an Asian among Asians.” — Orville Prescott, The New York Times “A travel book with timely, disturbing moral under-currents, both social and political... so enthralling, so utterly convincing and absorbing that one rebels at turning the last page.” — Boston Herald “Delightful reading... a fascinating adventure story. It also enables one to see Asia as a whole... But its main value lies in the fact that an Asian writes about Asia... an Asian who since she has lived and been educated in the West has the advantages of both points of view. In this age of an Asian renascence Miss Rama Rau’s account is both interesting and vital.” — Saturday Review
Remember the House
Remember the House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remember the House write by Santha Rama Rau. This book was released on 1956. Remember the House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The first novel of a well known and well traveled author turns "home to India" for a story of young woman's choice of a way of life. The daughter of a brilliant lawyer whose crusading has helped the Congress Party and the cause of freedom but whose political usefulness has passed, Baba lives in Bombay, was educated in England, but thinks of her grandmother's country house in Jalnabad as home. It is at the New Year's party in 1947 that Baba meets the young American couple, the Nichols, and is drawn by their open love for one another and enthusiasm for exotic India. Her friend Pria, clannish and withdrawn from the Americans, tells her that they have no place in the Indian way of life -- and as the Americans retreat, bewildered by their encounter with Indians and attempts to be friends, Baba sees the truth the Pris's remark. Still, imbued with the idea of romantic love they embody, she will not marry Hari, the eligible companion and suitor, until she has had a sour taste of infatuation for a young school teacher while visiting her mother and grandmother in Malabar -- her little adventure that provides her answer. Written with the attention to detail and authenticity of her non-fiction and with central interest focussed on a strenuous cultural exercise, this has another atmosphere from the more lyric and dramatic Some Inner Fury by Kamala Markandaya or from the more openly satirical A by R. Prawer Jhabvala."--Kirkus
The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau
The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau write by Antoinette M. Burton. This book was released on 2007-09-26. The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Antoinette Burton uses a mid-twentieth-century Indian-American authors career to analyze broader issues of postwar Americas understanding of itself and the wider world.
