I would be asked if I planned to visit my ancestral village; I would say no. I did not even know then what my ancestral village or villages were, though I did not tell them this; for me, India was the ancestral homeland, the village, if you will. If I needed more detail, then a visit to Gujarat would suffice, where they spoke my language. But India for now was one single continuous experience, twenty-eight days in duration, seven thousand miles long, travelled mostly on land, eyes wide open.
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A place within
rediscovering India
by M. G. Vassanji
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From inside front cover: Part travelogue and description, part history and meditation, and above all a quest for a lost homeland, A Place Within begins with diary entries from Vassanji's very first wide-eyed trip to India in 1993, then moves on to accounts from his subsequent and obsessive revisits. An intimate chronicle filled with fantastic stories and unforgettable characters, [it] is rich with images of bustling city streets and contrasting Indian landscapes, from the southern tip of India to the Himalayan foothills, from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea. Here, too, are the amazing histories of Delhi, Shimla, Gujarat, and Kerala, and of Vassanji's own family, members of an ancient sect that draws on both Hunduism and Islam.
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Table of Contents
Introduction.
ix
The First Visit.
1
This is India. Where is it?.
3
Delhi: The Burden of History.
43
Enigmas to Uncover.
45
The Sultan and the Sufi.
65
They Walked with Loud Lamentations.
79
The City of the Poets: Old Delhi.
99
Punjabi Delhi.
129
Postscript: Night Thougts, Delhi.
147
Shimla: A Spell in the Mountains.
153
The Sahib’s Resort in the Hills.
155
Waning Days in the Hills: Recalling Love, Art, and Politics.
187
Excursion to the Plains: The Old House in Amritsar.
203
Bombay Getaway: The Distant Uncle and the Bohra Rebel.
215
Postscript: Shimla Revisited.
229
Gujarat: Down Ancestral Roads, Fearfully.
233
These Moon-Faced Ones.
235
In the City of Sandalwood.
251
The Road to Champaner.
273
One Holy Man … Three Contending Shrines.
293
Uneasy City: Ahmedabad.
307
Road to Road: The Places We Came From.
337
End of the Road.
363
More Road-to-Road: Gujarati Fragments.
381
Kerala: The Goddess’s Footprints.
387
The Malabar Coast.
389
To Finish: Back on the Himalayan Foothills.
421
Select Glossary.
425
Bibliography.
427
Sources and Credits.
435
Acknowledgements.
439
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-433).
Published in Canada by Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House Canada.
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