Author: C S Ranga Iyer
Publisher: LP Publications
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 131
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175362693
Description
This book is a reply to Katherine Mayo's book Mother India, which the author feels slandered a great and simple-hearted nation of ancient descent.
Two visitors want to India from West, an Englishman of culture and an American woman of conceit. Both of them have recorded their impression. The Englishman named his book 'Jesting Pilate', and has said very unpleasant things in a pleasant way. Sarcastically, the American tourist calls her book Mother India, which breathes anti-Indian scorn and is tirade on India. She came to India with a set purpose to write a popular book. A book to be popular must be sensational. A sensational book must deal with the sex-side. Shocking things must be expressed wither with the cool courage or holy horror. A woman is best qualified for the job.
Anguished by her tirade, this book attempts to rebut her arguments.
Contents
Foreword
CHAPTER 1
Slandering A Nation
CHAPTER 2
The American Miss and the Bengal Terrorist
CHAPTER 3
Girl-Mothers
CHAPTER 4
Boy-Fathers
CHAPTER 5
This Picture and That
CHAPTER 6
Women and Purdah
CHAPTER 7
Indian Women --- The Real Facts
CHAPTER 8
Errors and Exaggerations
CHAPTER 9
"Earthly Gods"
CHAPTER 10
Slave Mentality
CHAPTER 11
Slave Mentality
CHAPTER 12
Riots, Political and Communal
CHAPTER 13
The Reforms
CHAPTER 14
If "Britons" Withdrew?
CHAPTER 15
Princes and People
CHAPTER 16
As Others See Us
CHAPTER 17
"Spades Are Spades!"
Conclusion