A Hindu Marriage
Gabriele Annan
- Mamaji by Ved Mehta
Oxford, 334 pp, £6.95, April 1980, ISBN 0 19 502640 3
In 1956, when he was 22 and about to go up to Oxford, Ved Mehta finished an autobiography, Face to Face: a provisional one, naturally, under the circumstances. In 1972, he published Daddyji, a life of his father. Daddyji was born circa 1895, but the book reaches back to the birth of the grandfather, and beyond: though the beyond is rather shadowy. ‘By extension’, it was ‘the story of an ancient Hindu family from an Indian village, aspiring to enter the modern world’.
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Vol. 2 No. 12 · 19 June 1980 » Gabriele Annan » A Hindu Marriage
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