THE LAND AND LIFE OF INDIA By Margaret Read
Miss Margaret Read, whoie admirable book, The Indian Peasant Uprooted, we had "occasion to praise some time ago, has contributed a little volume on India to " The Land and Life " series (Edinburgh House Press, 2s.). It is meant to be a " background book, for use in study circles of people interested in India. Sometithes by narrative or description, sometimes dialogue, Miss Read manages to cover a wide expange of ground, and to illuminate most sides of Indian life, from pilgrimages to politics, from agri- culture to schools, with (as we should expect from her) particularly close attention to family and village life. She has selected her 'material with` great skill,' and written so that the- Unfamiliar is made clear, and the strange interest- ing. We hope that her book will be 'widely used
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