Pilgrimage
Subtitle: One Woman's Return to a Changing India
Publisher: Seal Pr
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781580050326
Subjects: Politics and government; Travel; India; Social Situations And Conditions; History - General History; Social conditions; Jayapal, Pramila,; 1965-; 1977-; Women's Studies - General; Asia - India; Customs & Traditions; 1947-
First sentence: April 20, 1995. I am in New York's Kennedy Airport, waiting to board my flight to India.
Description: "Pramila Jayapal, an Indian-born, western-educated woman, takes the reader with her on a journey of discovery as she returns to India and explores the complex issues of progress and developments.".

"Jayapal spends two years immersing herself in the life of her native land, living in smaller cities and villages. Travelling from Kerala to Ladakh to the holy city of Varanasi on the Ganges River, she witnesses firsthand a society struggling to reconcile tradition with modernity and eventually confronts what both delights and frustrates her in her country of origin.

In doing so, she begins to understand the profound lessons that Indian culture and society have to offer, lessons with the power to enlighten and enrich our way of living in today's rapidly changing world."--BOOK JACKET.