History and Reflections on the Way Things Were
โ Scribed by Concordia, C.
- Book ID
- 117901688
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0272-1724
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The Way Things Were opens with the death of Toby, the Maharaja of Kalasuryaketu, a Sanskritist who has not set foot in India for two decades. It falls to his son, Skanda, to return Toby's body to his birthplace, "a tin-pot kingdom" not worth "one air-gun salute." This journey takes him halfway aroun
**"A formidable mix of the personal and the political . . . The Way Things Were is a substantive contribution to new writing from the subcontinent." *Independent*** When Skanda's father Toby dies, estranged from Skanda's mother and from the India he once loved, it falls to Skanda to return his body