Travelers' Tales India

by James O'Reilly

  “Hobson-Jobson” by Salman Rushdie reprinted from Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie (Granta Books, 1991). Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Copyright © 1985 by Salman Rushdie.

  “My Delhi Home” by Cheryl Bentley reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Cheryl Bentley.

  “Merle Haggard and the Ambassador” by James O’Reilly and Larry Habegger reprinted by permission of the authors. Copyright © 1994 by James O’Reilly and Larry Habegger.

  “The Dharma of Heli-Skiing” by Peter Shelton excerpted from the February 1993 issue of Outside magazine. Reprinted by permission from Outside magazine. Copyright © 1993, Mariah Publications Corporation.

  “Greeting the Monsoon” by Alexander Frater excerpted from Chasing the Monsoon by Alexander Frater. Copyright © 1990 by Alexander Frater. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and Penguin Books Ltd.

  “The Other Raj” by William Dalrymple reprinted from the September 1993 issue of Condé Nast Traveler. Courtesy of Condé Nast Traveler and the author. Copyright © 1993 by William Hamilton-Dalrymple.

  “Through Rajasthan by Rail” by G. Bruce Knecht reprinted from the July 1994 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by G. Bruce Knecht.

  “Stairway to Heaven” by Madhur Jaffrey reprinted from the July 1989 issue of Travel & Leisure. Reprinted by permission of Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inc. and the author. Copyright © 1989 by Madhur Jaffrey.

  “Worshipping the Wicket” by John Ward Anderson reprinted by permission of The Washington Post. Copyright © 1994 by The Washington Post.

  “Scribes of Bengal” by Julian Crandall Hollick reprinted from the July 1991 issue of Smithsonian magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1991 by Julian Crandall Hollick.

  “The Horns of Kaziranga” by Larry Habegger reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Larry Habegger.

  “Wheels of Life” by Josie Dew excerpted from The Wind in My Wheels: Travel Tales from the Saddle by Josie Dew. Copyright © 1992 by Josie Dew. Published by Little, Brown & Company (UK). Reprinted by permission.

  “Remnants of the Raj” by Anthony Weller reprinted from the November 1989 issue of Gourmet Magazine. Courtesy of Gourmet Magazine and the author. Copyright © 1989 by Anthony Weller.

  “Slow Boat to the Islands” by Joseph Yogerst reprinted from the January/ February 1993 issue of Islands. Reprinted by permission of Islands Publishing Company. Copyright © 1993 by Islands Publishing Company.

  “Valley of Refuge” by Mary Orr reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1993 by Mary Orr.

  “Elephant Man” by Mark Shand excerpted from Travels on My Elephant by Mark Shand. Published in the United States by The Overlook Press, Woodstock, New York, 12498. Published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd. Reprinted by permission. Copyright © 1991 by Mark Shand.

  “Shalom, Bombay” by Fredda Rosen reprinted from the November 5, 1989 issue of the San Francisco Examiner. Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1989 by Fredda Rosen.

  “Lost and Found in Agra” by Joel Simon reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Joel Simon.

  “The Cycle-Wallah Does Northern India” by Michael Buckley, reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Michael Buckley.

  “My Wedding at the Ashram” by Kathleen Clark reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Kathleen Clark.

  “In the Ladies’ Compartment” by Thalia Zepatos excerpted from A Journey of One’s Own: Uncommon Advice for the Independent Woman Traveler by Thalia Zepatos. Reprinted by permission of The Eighth Mountain Press, Portland, Oregon. Copyright © 1992 by Thalia Zepatos.

  “Reading the Leaves” by Peter Holt excerpted from In Clive’s Footsteps by Peter Holt. Published by Hutchinson, an imprint of Random Century Ltd. Copyright © 1990 by Peter Holt. Reprinted by permission.

  “Serenity 101” by Steven Darian excerpted from A Ganges of the Mind: A Journey on the River of Dreams by Steven Darian. Reprinted by permission of Ratna Sagar P. Ltd. and the author. Copyright © 1988 by Steven Darian.

  “To the Tribal Heartland” by Norman Lewis excerpted from A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India by Norman Lewis. Copyright © 1991 by Norman Lewis. Reprinted by permission of Jonathan Cape Ltd. and Henry Holt and Company.

  “Encounter with a Rajah” and “Kanya Kumari” by Geoffrey Moorhouse reprinted from OM: An Indian Pilgrimage by Geoffrey Moorhouse. Reprinted with permission of Hodder & Stoughton and Aitken, Stone & Wylie. Copyright © 1993 by Geoffrey Moorhouse.

  “The Boys’ School” by Bridget McCoy reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Bridget McCoy.

  “The Die Is Caste” and “Shifting Gears on the Grand Trunk Road” by Steve Coll excerpted from On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia by Steve Coll. Copyright © 1994 by Steve Coll. Reprinted by permission of Times Books, a division of Random House, Inc. and Melanie Jackson Agency.

  “The Suffering of Eve” by Jim Landers reprinted from the March 7, 1993 issue of The Dallas Morning News. Reprinted with permission of The Dallas Morning News. Copyright © 1993 by The Dallas Morning News.

  Additional Credits (arranged alphabetically by title)

  Selections from All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections by M. Gandhi. Copyright © 1990 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

  Selections from An Area of Darkness by V. S. Naipaul reprinted by permission of Aitken, Stone & Wylie. Copyright © 1964 by V. S. Naipaul.

  Selection from Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helena Norberg-Hodge reprinted by permission of Sierra Club Books. Copyright © 1991 by Helena Norberg-Hodge.

  Selections from Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana through India by Jonah Blank. Copyright © 1992 by Jonah Blank. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

  Selections from The Back of Beyond: Travels to the Wild Places of the Earth by David Yeadon. Copyright © 1991 by David Yeadon. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

  Selection from “A Back Seat to Nobody in Fight against Sexism” by Edward A. Gargan reprinted from The New York Times. Copyright © 1991 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.

  Selection from Banaras: City of Light by Diana L. Eck reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright © 1982 by Diana L. Eck.

  Selection from “Benares: Holy City” by Karen Eberhardt reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Karen Eberhardt.

  Selection from page 72 of Cadogan Guides: India by Frank Kusy, copyright © Frank Kusy 1987, 1989, 1993 by permission of Cadogan Books, London House, Parkgate Road, London, SW11 4NO and Globe Pequot Press.

  Selection from “Chasing the Rainbow: A Western Sadhu in India” by Mark Antrobus reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Mark Antrobus.

  Selections from City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple. Copyright © 1993 by William Hamilton-Dalrymple. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers (UK) Ltd.

  Selections from “The Confounding Allure of India” by Peter Jon Lindberg reprinted from the May 8, 1994 issue of The New York Times. Copyright © 1994 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.

  Selection from the Continent of Circe: An Essay on the Peoples of India by Nirad C. Chaudhuri. Published by Chatto and Windus. Copyright © 1965 by Nirad C. Chaudhuri. Reprinted by permission.

  Selections from “Culinary Nirvana in the Streets of India” by Patricia Unterman reprinted from the January 14, 1990 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle. Reprinted by permission of the San Francisco Chronicle and the author. Copyright © 1990 by the San Francisco Chronicle.

  Selections from “Cycling India: Letters from the Road” by Willie Weir reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Willie Weir.

 
; Selections from The Defeat of a Congressman and Other Parables of Modern India by Mark Tully, originally published in Great Britain as No Full Stops in India. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, New York, and Penguin Books, Ltd., London. Copyright © 1991 by Mark Tully.

  Selection from The Eleventh Book: The Women, The Mahabharata of Vyasa excerpted from India’s Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi by Mala Sen, copyright © Mala Sen 1991. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers (UK) Ltd.

  Selection from “Enchanted” by Cheryl Bentley reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Cheryl Bentley.

  Selection from “The Evolution of the Indian Sari” by Annapurna Weber reprinted from the April 1994 issue of India Currents Magazine. Copyright © 1994 by Annapurna Weber.

  Selection from Galen Rowell’s Vision: The Art of Adventure Photography by Galen Rowell reprinted by permission of Sierra Club Books. Copyright © 1993 by Mountain Light Press.

  Selections from The Garden of Life: An Introduction to India’s Healing Plants by Naveen Patnaik. Copyright © 1993 by Naveen Patnaik. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

  Selection from “Getting the Run Around” by Michael Buckley excerpted from the Winter 90/91 edition of Great Expeditions magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1990 by Michael Buckley.

  Selections from A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India by Norman Lewis. Copyright © 1991 by Norman Lewis. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company and Jonathan Cape Ltd.

  Selections by Larry Habegger reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Larry Habegger.

  Selection from The Healthy Cuisine of India: Recipes from the Bengal Region by Bharti Kirchner reprinted by permission of The RGA Publishing Group, Inc. and Bharti Kirchner © 1994.

  Selections from Hidden Journey: A Spiritual Awakening by Andrew Harvey. Copyright © 1991 by Andrew Harvey. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, Inc.

  Selection from “Hill Stations of the Raj” by Anita Desai reprinted from The Armchair Traveler, edited by John Thorn and David Reuther. Copyright © 1987 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.

  Selection from “Hindu Flash Cards” by Rajendra S. Khadka reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Rajendra S. Khadka.

  Selections from In Clive’s Footsteps by Peter Holt reprinted by permission of Random Century Ltd. Copyright © 1990 by Peter Holt.

  Selection from India: A Million Mutinies Now by V. S. Naipaul. Copyright © 1990 by V. S. Naipaul. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA, Inc. and Aitken, Stone & Wylie.

  Selections from India - a travel survival kit by Hugh Finlay, Geoff Crowther, Bryn Thomas, Tony Wheeler reprinted by permission of Lonely Planet Publications. Copyright © 1993 by Lonely Planet Publications.

  Selections from India: Facing the Twenty-First Century by Barbara Crossette reprinted by permission of Indiana University Press. Copyright © 1993 by Barbara Crossette. All rights reserved.

  Selection from India: Labyrinths in the Lotus Land by Sasthi Brata reprinted by permission of William Morrow and Company, Inc. Copyright © 1985 by Sasthi Brata.

  Selection from “India’s Gift: The Discovery of Each Day” by A. M. Rosenthal reprinted from the October 7, 1984 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Copyright © 1984 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.

  Selections from “India Sketches” by Mary Orr reprinted by permission of author. Copyright © 1994 by Mary Orr.

  Selection from “Interlude in India” by Shirley Streshinsky reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1982 by Shirley Streshinsky.

  Selections from A Journey in Ladakh by Andrew Harvey reprinted by permission of Jonathan Cape Ltd. and Aitken, Stone, & Wylie. Copyright © 1983 by Andrew Harvey.

  Selections from A Journey of One’s Own: Uncommon Advice for the Independent Woman Traveler by Thalia Zepatos reprinted by permission of The Eighth Mountain Press, Portland, Oregon. Copyright © 1992 by Thalia Zepatos.

  Selections from Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East by Gita Mehta reprinted by permission of Janklow Literary Agency. Copyright © 1979 by Gita Mehta.

  Selection by Jim Landers reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Jim Landers.

  Selection from “A Love Story” by Nesta Rovina reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Nesta Rovina.

  Selection from “Mahabalipuram Daze” by Laurie Udesky reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Laura Udesky.

  Selection from Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers edited by Mary Morris in collaboration with Larry O’Connor. Permission granted by International Creative Management, Inc. Copyright © 1993 by Mary Morris and Larry O’Connor.

  Selection from Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and The Sister Nivedita published by George C. Harrap & Company. Copyright © 1913 by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.

  Selection from “Night Owl? Bombay Needs Rat Killers at $65 a Month” by Tim McGirk reprinted by permission of The London Independent. Copyright © 1993 by The London Independent.

  Selection from “Night-Train Glimpses of India” by Cameron Barr excerpted from the March 9, 1992 issue of The Christian Science Monitor. Copyright © 1992 by The Christian Science Monitor. Reprinted by permission of The Christian Science Monitor.

  Selection from OM: An Indian Pilgrimage by Geoffrey Moorhouse reprinted by permission of Hodder & Stoughton and Aitken, Stone & Wylie. Copyright © 1993 by Geoffrey Moorhouse.

  Selection from On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia by Steve Coll. Copyright © 1994 by Steve Coll. Reprinted by permission of Time Books, a division of Random House, Inc. and Melanie Jackson Agency.

  Selection from Passage through India by Gary Snyder reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1972, 1983 by Gary Snyder

  Selections from “Phantom India Stays in the Mind” by Jon Carroll excerpted from the February 16, 1994 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle. Reprinted by permission of the San Francisco Chronicle and the author. Copyright © 1994 by the San Francisco Chronicle.

  Selection from Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century edited by Charles Allen published by André Deutsch Limited and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Copyright © 1975 by Charles Allen and the British Broadcasting Corporation.

  Selection from “Road Warriors of the Zoji La” by Darla Hillard reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Darla Hillard.

  Selection from “Rohtas Riding” by Michael Sutherland reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Michael Sutherland.

  Selection from The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig by Marvin Harris. Copyright © 1985 by Marvin Harris.

  Selection from The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra by Rory Nugent. Copyright © 1991 by Rory Nugent. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

  Selection from “The Seeking of Emptiness—India’s Best-Kept Secret” by Tim Malyon excerpted from the November 1989 issue of World Magazine. Copyright © 1989 by Tim Malyon.

  Selection from “Sharing” by Betty Ann Webster reprinted by permission of author. Copyright © 1994 by Betty Ann Webster.

  Selection from Shopping for Buddhas by Jeff Greenwald. Copyright © 1990 by Jeff Greenwald. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

  Selection from Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby reprinted by permission of Hodder and Stoughton. Copyright © 1983 by Eric Newby.

  Selection from “Solo Adventure: Six Weeks in India, the Hard Way—Alone” by Jo Yohay reprinted with permission from Travel & Leisure, November 1991. Copyright © 1991 by American Express Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.

  Selection from “Solo in Asia” by Marybeth Bond reprinted by permission of the author. Copyrigh
t © 1994 by Marybeth Bond.

  Selection from “The Sound of Music, Indian Style” by Jim Keener reprinted by permission of author. Copyright © 1994 by Jim Keener.

  Selections from Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem reprinted by permission of Institute for Evolutionary Research, Ltd. Copyright © 1984 by Institute for Evolutionary Research, Ltd.

  Selections from Tiger-Wallahs: Encounters with the Men Who Tried to Save the Greatest of the Great Cats by Geoffrey C. Ward with Diane Raines Ward copyright © 1993 by Geoffrey C. Ward with Diane Raines Ward. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

  Selection from A Time for Tea: Travels Through China and India in Search of Tea by Jason Goodwin originally published as The Gunpowder Gardens by Chatto & Windus. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Random House (UK) Ltd., and Peters Fraser & Dunlop. Copyright © 1990 by Jason Goodwin.

  Selection from “Travelers’ Unraveler” by Emily Mitchell reprinted from the April 5, 1993 issue of TIME magazine. Reprinted by permission. Copyright © 1993 by TIME, Inc.

  Quotations from The Travellers’ Dictionary of Quotations: Who Said What, About Where? compiled by Peter Yapp. (Routledge & Keagan Paul plc., 1983) Copyright © 1983 by Peter Yapp.

  Selections from Travels on My Elephant by Mark Shand reprinted by permission. Published in the United States by The Overlook Press, Woodstock, New York, 12498. Published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd. Copyright © 1991 by Mark Shand.

  Selection from “Uninvited Guests” by Aruna Har Prasad excerpted from the June 1991 issue of World Magazine. Copyright © 1991 by Aruna Har Prasad.

  Selection from “Vagabond in India” by Carol Levy reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Carol Levy.

  Selections from “Walking the Length of India” by Jan Zabinski reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1994 by Jan Zabinski.

  Selections from The Wind in My Wheels: Travel Tales from the Saddle by Josie Dew reprinted by permission of Little, Brown & Company (UK). Copyright © 1992 by Josie Dew.