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Of sadhus and spinners : Australian encounters with India / edited by Bruce Bennett ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : HarperCollins Publishers India, a joint venture with The India Today Group, 2009.Description: ix, 205 pISBN:
  • 9788172238483
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 8AU.09 BEN-S
Contents:
The Mohammedan mother / John Lang -- Our nearest great country / Alfred Deakin -- The soul of the melon man / Mary C. Elkington -- My friend, the maharajah / Louis Esson -- Black and white / R. Francis Strangman -- The Khyber pass and a kidnapping / Mollie Skinner -- A democrat on the Ganges / Manning Clark -- Mrs. James Greene / Ethel Anderson -- Kumari / Mena Abdullah and Ray Mathew -- Sadhus and sahibs / Christopher Koch -- The clothesline in the Himalayas / Vicki Viidikas -- Meeting Mister Ghosh / Haydn M. Williams -- The elephant stop / G.S. Sharat Chandra -- The strange business at Bombay and Madras / Dal Stivens -- Passage from India / Geoffrey Bewley -- A foot in the stream / David Malouf -- The guru / Satendra Nandan -- Monsoon / Inez Baranay -- Maisie goes to India / Joan London -- My sister's mother / Manik Datar -- A pocket full of stories / Sujatha Fernandes -- Masterpiece / Yasmine Gooneratne.
Summary: Stories based on the problems faced by Australians in India and East Indians in Australia.
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Short stories.

The Mohammedan mother / John Lang -- Our nearest great country / Alfred Deakin -- The soul of the melon man / Mary C. Elkington -- My friend, the maharajah / Louis Esson -- Black and white / R. Francis Strangman -- The Khyber pass and a kidnapping / Mollie Skinner -- A democrat on the Ganges / Manning Clark -- Mrs. James Greene / Ethel Anderson -- Kumari / Mena Abdullah and Ray Mathew -- Sadhus and sahibs / Christopher Koch -- The clothesline in the Himalayas / Vicki Viidikas -- Meeting Mister Ghosh / Haydn M. Williams -- The elephant stop / G.S. Sharat Chandra -- The strange business at Bombay and Madras / Dal Stivens -- Passage from India / Geoffrey Bewley -- A foot in the stream / David Malouf -- The guru / Satendra Nandan -- Monsoon / Inez Baranay -- Maisie goes to India / Joan London -- My sister's mother / Manik Datar -- A pocket full of stories / Sujatha Fernandes -- Masterpiece / Yasmine Gooneratne.

Stories based on the problems faced by Australians in India and East Indians in Australia.

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