India

Travel in India is an intense experience.The look of the countryside,the dress of the people,the crowded city streets with their signs in unknownscripts and their constantly changing smells,a cuisine of many delights where even the western food tastes subtly different,the temples with their brooding magnificence,the sculptured figures of seductive handmaidens and majestic divinities,the cool elegance of inlaid marble-all these provide a stimulus to the senses which change each place that is visited.But this forms only the visible part of the visit:behind it lies the continuing civilisation of which it is manifestation, a civilisation made of different elements and traditions,many of them unfamiliar yet also containing many aspects of western thought and life style.Then too, the enquiring visitor will have a sense of India as a vibrant democracy and growing indusatrial power,a vast country striving for economic progress,a society of many interests and views,many are captured by India and return to it again and again.nobody can be totally unaffected.This book through its pictures provides a visual dimension of the country-an invitation for readers who have not yet visited India,and a trigger for the memories of those who have done so.