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WOOD, HEATHER

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Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980. 331p.Sider. Hardback in dust jacket. Nice copy. In 1969 a remarkable journey was made by a group of forty elderly Bengali villagers, an adventure made possible when their benevolent landowner died, leaving her wealth in a trust fund to enable groups from the village to travel around India in a third-class railway carriage. Her instructions were simple. ‘You see, I want my villagers to see all of India. I want them to go to the great ruins, and the temples, and the places of the great gods. I want them to see Delhi. To visit the government houses. I want them to go on the boats out to Elephanta in Bombay, and then up to the dairy farms of the north. I want them to go from Himalaya to Cape Comorin and back again. They must see it all.
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