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This collection of memoirs recounts the author's childhood experiences in the quiet and supine India of villages. The Indian village in the first half of the last century was not a fairy tale world, as numerous accounts of human misery set against its backdrop have testified over the years, but it was still a world where a child could run across a green meadow studded with palm trees, dreaming of catching the end of a huge rainbow spanning the sky. Set in Sankhari, the author's village by the sea in Orissa, the reminiscences are imbued with a childlike sense of wonder: the dreaded butcher thus turns out to be messenger from a goddess, while a princely exterior hides a hapless vagrant. Chasing the Rainbow is a homage to a way of life that was until recently so real. This book will not only appeal to readers nostalgic for a bygone world, but will also serve as an invaluable record of village life in early twentieth-century India.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Chasing the Rainbow
• Subtitle: Growing up in an India village
• Author: Manoj Das
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9780198065210
• ISBN: 0198065213
• ID: 04520929
• Publisher: OUP India
• Weight: 202 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 142 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2009

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