India's Unending Journey

by Mark Tully

Singh, Karan, Hinduism (Criterion Publications, 1987)

  Soros, George, On Globalization (Public Affairs, 2004)

  Stiglitz, Joseph, The Roaring Nineties (Penguin Books, 2004)

  Tacey, David, The Spiritual Revolution (Brunner Routledge, 2004)

  Tarnas, Richard, The Passion of the Western Mind (Pimlico, 1996)

  Toynbee, Polly, ‘Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion’ in the Guardian (5 December 2005)

  Twomey, Vincent, The End of Irish Catholicism? (Veritas Publications, 2002)

  Vatsyayana, Mallanaga, Kama Sutra, eds. Sudhir Kakar and Wendy Doniger, (OUP, 2002)

  Ward, Keith, God, Chance and Necessity (Oneworld Publications, 1996)

  — What the Bible Really Teaches (SPCK, 2004)

  Williams, H.A., The True Wilderness (Continuum International Publications Group, 2002)

  Zaehner, R.C., Hindu Scriptures (J.M. Dent & Sons, 1938)

  — Hinduism (OUP, 1982)

  INDEX

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  Abbeyfield Society 47–8

  Abraham 26

  Ackoff, Russell L. 240

  Adams, Douglas 119–20

  advertising 156

  agriculture 179–80, 190–1, 214–15

  Ahmedabad 104–6

  Akbar, M. J. 107

  Allahabad 8, 66

  Ambani, Mukesh 193

  Ambassador car 177–9

  Ambedkar, Bhim Rao 61

  Anglican Cathedral, Delhi 42–3

  Anglican Church/Anglicanism 27, 35, 62, 63, 87, 128, 153

  and homosexuality 92

  Runcie’s leadership 93–4

  and spirituality 95–6

  and yoga 64, 67

  Annan, Kofi 188

  Apostolic Christian Assembly 80

  Armstrong, Karen 87, 107, 149

  Arya Samaj sect 78–9

  Augustine, St 153–4

  automobile industry 177–9, 183

  Badrinath, Chaturvedi (Badri) 16–17, 45, 126

  Baru, Sanjaya 187

  Basavanna 61

  BBC 3–4, 14, 48–9, 57, 74, 76, 89, 94, 121, 176, 214, 241

  Birt’s changes 235–9

  Beames, John 7–8

  Benedict XVI, Pope (Cardinal Ratzinger) 82, 133

  Beslan tragedy 117

  Betjeman, John 23–4, 27, 37

  Bhagavad Gita 212–13, 245–6

  Bhai, Suhail 260

  Bhakti movement 60–1

  Bhalla, Surjit S. 201

  Bharati, Swami Veda 65, 66–70

  Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) 77, 89, 90, 105, 106, 122, 169, 186, 192, 200–1, 249, 251, 263

  Bhasin, Kamla 171

  Bhatrihari 36

  Bhatt, Ela 105

  Bhindranwale, Sant Jarnail Singh 51, 52

  Bhopal disaster 214

  Bhutan 202

  Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali 174

  Big Fight, The 15–16

  Birt, John 235–9

  Blackburn, Simon 101, 109

  Blair, Tony 120, 180, 229

  BNR Hotel, Puri 1–3, 4

  Boden, Rebecca 227–9

  Brahma 6

  Brendon, Vyvyen 3

  Britain/UK 10, 20, 43

  ‘Battle of Edmonton’ 212

  class system 57

  dissatisfaction 243

  and globalisation 187–8, 189, 191, 194

  loss of religious festivals 258–9

  management culture 227–9, 244

  need for pluralism 91, 98

  privatisation 229–31

  socialist vs. market economics 180

  Buddha 118, 248, 259

  Buddhism 60, 96

  burqas 107–8

  Burt, T. S. 152

  Bush, George W. 106, 180–1

  business culture 225–47

  Cambridge University 15, 21, 32, 33, 34–6, 38, 49, 57, 80–1, 100–1, 109, 195

  Campbell, Alistair 121

  Car Festival 7–8

  Carr-Gomm, Richard 47–8

  cars 177–9, 210–11, 218

  caste system 55–62

  Cato, Molly Scott 242–3

  celibacy 137, 153–5, 169–70, 172, 221

  Chandra, Ram (Chandre) 59

  Chapman, Mark D. 229

  Charles, Prince 81, 88, 125

  Chilton, Geoff 32

  Christadas, Father 85

  Christian Brothers 136–7

  Christian Meditation Movement 97

  Christianity/Christians 5, 26, 43, 49, 52, 59, 65, 268

  beliefs about society 28, 57–8, 60

  British media hostility 109–10, 120–1

  and certainty 45, 46

  conversion 78–80, 249

  decline 10, 91

  denunciation by Hindu nationalists 72, 73, 74, 78–9

  ‘no man’s land’ metaphor 98–9

  and pluralism 79–87, 91

  and possessions 213

  and providence 216–17

  revelation vs. reason 54–5

  and science 33, 54–5

  and sexual morality 10, 34, 92, 134–5, 153–5

  and spirituality 95–6, 97

  and suffering 118–19

  Christie, Joe 80–1

  Churches of North and South India 42, 43

  Clarke, Richard 98

  Coca Cola 186–7

  Cole, John 235

  communications technologies 218

  Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI) 215

  Congress Party 105, 219

  consumerism 122, 193–4, 211–13, 218–19, 222

  Coomeraswamy, Ananada K. 113 ‘Counting the Costs’ 242–3

  Cunningham, Alexander 153

  Cupitt, Don 36

  Dalai Lama 96, 222

  Darjeeling 224–6

  Das, Gurcharan 111

  Dawkins, Richard 114–17

  death 265–6

  Delaney, Father 128–9

  Delhi 14, 39–43, 48–9, 76, 81, 82, 94–5, 101, 102, 183–6, 187, 207, 237

  Desai, Morarji 39, 90, 105, 170

  Descartes, René 11

  Devi, Shri Mataji Nirmala 197

  dialogue and discussion 13–17, 42, 46

  Diwali 256, 258

  Dodd, Mark 49, 151

  dogmatic certainty 9, 10–13

  Doniger, Wendy 159, 160

  Duffy, Eamon 109

  Dupuis, Jacques 82–4

  Durga Puja festival 44

  Eck, Diana 249, 262

  economic growth 200–23

  economics 9–10, 175–99

  Edgar, David 107–8

  education 227, 228–9

  author’s 21–38

  and management culture 227, 228–9

  Eid 102, 252

  Einstein, Albert 53

  Enlightenment 31, 174

  evil 116–18

  experience 49–53, 68–9, 86–7

  and reason 53–5, 86–7

  Faces of India 202

  Falklands War 93

  Fardid, Ahmed 12

  fate 17–18, 30–1, 48–9

  Fawcett Society 156–7

  female/male balance 172–3

  Fennell, Desmond 144

  Fermor, Patrick Leigh 154–5

  Fitzgerald, Garrett 136, 145–6

  Ford, David 101

  Forrington, Victor 37, 41

  Francis, Philip 246–7

  Fraser, Giles 95

  Freeman, Lawrence 97

  fundamentalism 12

  biblical 54

  Muslim 12, 106–9

  secular 109–11

  Fundamentally Wrong 108

  Galbraith, J. J. 206

  Gandhi, Indira 14, 76, 90, 105, 177, 180, 186

  Gandhi, Mahatma 5, 12–13, 16, 40, 46–7, 61, 75, 104, 111, 123, 169, 201, 219–22

  Gandhi, Rajiv 76


  Ganga (Ganges) River 64, 66, 248, 250, 254, 256–7, 258, 261, 263, 264–5

  Gates, Bill 210

  GDP (Gross Domestic Product) 175, 200–1, 215–16

  Gearey, Robert Wade 62

  globalisation 186–99

  God (Ultimate Reality) 26

  Blair and 120–1

  Dawkins and 115–16

  existence of 35–6, 38, 41, 70–1, 81, 112, 113

  experience of 31, 38, 50–1, 52–3, 63, 67, 68–9, 92, 113

  and evil 117, 118

  Hindu view 45, 98

  many ways to 2, 33, 65, 70, 80, 101, 266

  masculine presence 172

  and providence 216–17

  and suffering 119

  as truth 65

  Golden Temple (Amritsar) 51

  ‘Operation Blue Star’ attack 51–2, 75

  Gray, John 11–12, 217

  Gresley, Nigel 26

  Griffiths, Bede 84–7, 268

  Gujral, Inder 14

  Hague, William 133

  Haldane, John 120

  Hamilton, Clive 156, 192–3, 201–2, 215

  Handy, Charles 212

  Hannan, Patrick 134–5, 144

  Hare, M. E. 17

  Harling, Colonel 22

  Hayes, John 138–9, 140

  health 184–5

  Healy, Sean 215

  Heber, Reginald 114

  Heredia, Father Rudi 83

  Hicks, John 215

  Hindu–Muslim conflict 74–5, 89, 104–6, 249–53, 255

  Hinduism/Hindus 1, 5–9, 43, 44–6, 49, 55, 65, 101, 102, 248, 259, 265

  and Indian Catholicism 81–2, 85

  nationalist/extremist 12–13, 72–4, 77, 79, 89, 192

  pluralism of 5, 46, 88–9, 111

  and sexuality 152–3, 158–63

  see also caste system, Tantra; yoga Hindustan Lever 226

  Hindustan Motors 177–9

  Hines, Colin 225–6

  Hitler 104

  homosexuality 19, 34, 91–2, 159

  Hopkins, Gerard Manley 50–1

  Hopper, Kenneth and William 239–40, 245

  Howatch, Susan 33

  Hughes, Gerard 62–3, 67

  humility 18–19, 20, 22, 25, 46–7, 125, 216, 239, 247, 266–7

  Husain, Imam 102

  Hussein, Saddam 120

  Hussey, Marmaduke 238

  Ignatius, St 246

  Imhasly–Gandhy, Rashna 155, 171

  Iranian revolution 12

  Ireland 10, 91, 158, 215

  Roman Catholic Church in 127–50, 174

  Irwin, Lord 42, 43

  Islam/Muslims 44, 65, 81, 101, 102, 174, 213, 248

  denunciation by Hindu nationalists 72–5, 77

  fundamentalism 12, 106–9

  and pluralism 87–90

  see also Hindu/Muslim conflict

  Iyengar, B. K. S. 64

  Jacob, Satish 76

  Jaffrelot, Christophe 79

  Jagganath 6–7

  Jama Masjid mosque 89–90, 102

  Jerome, St 154

  Jesuits 62–3, 80–4

  Jinnah, Mohammad Ali 75

  Jnanadeva 60

  John Paul II, Pope 127, 142

  Johnson, Robert A. 164

  Jordan, Father Tom 138, 140

  Judaism 213, 219

  Kakar, Sudhir 159, 160, 168

  Kalidas 165

  Kama Sutra 158–60

  Kapoor, Harshpal 260

  Kartik Purnima festival 1, 2, 4–5, 6, 9

  Kelly, Father 128, 129

  Keynes, John Maynard 215

  Khajuraho temples 151–3, 160–3

  Khanna, Madhu 166

  Kipling, Rudyard 3, 220

  Kolkata 39, 42, 44, 81, 225

  Krishna 6, 212–13, 245–6

  Kumar, Rajiv 196–8, 216, 218–19

  Kuznets, Simon 215–16

  Lal, Harbans 48–9

  Lannoy, Richard 264, 265

  Lewis, C. S. 109–10

  Lewis, Patricia Maxwell 121

  Lincoln Theological College 36–7

  Lipner, Julius 259

  Liptons 226

  liturgy 27–8

  Luther, Martin 154

  Macmillan, Harold 229

  Magdalene Laundries 137–8

  Maha Kumbh Mela festival 8–9, 66–7

  Mahabharata 39, 126

  Maharaj, Acharya Kripa Shankarji 171

  Mahashrivrati festival 161–3

  Main, John 97

  management see business culture

  market capitalism 9, 180–6, 195–6, 236

  Marlborough College 21–34, 38, 156

  materialism 120, 123, 142–3, 267

  Maynooth seminary 128, 130–5, 140

  McAinsh, Eley 20

  McCarthy, J. J. 133

  McConvery, Brendan 132, 133

  McGahern, John 144

  McWilliams, David 141–2, 143

  media

  attitude to religion 120–2

  hostility to Irish Church 140–1

  promotion of conflict 15–16, 250–1

  promotion of consumerism 193–4

  Menon, Ritu 171

  meritocracy 58

  Methodists 42

  Microsoft India 207–10

  Mill, John Stuart 243–4

  Miller, John 31

  Mintzberg, Henry 239–40

  Mirabehn 5

  Mishra, Veer Bhadra 251, 252–3, 253–7

  modernism 10–11, 16

  Modi, Narendra 106

  moral economics 196–8

  morality 92, 134–8 see also sexual morality

  Muggeridge, Malcolm 221

  Muslims see Islam

  myth 86–7

  Nanda, B. R. 220

  National Service 29

  nature 50–1, 214, 257

  Naxalites 196–7

  Nayak, Radhakant 59–60

  Nehru, Jawaharlal 75, 110, 176, 179, 193, 257

  neti 16, 45, 53, 99

  Nomani, Abdul Batin 251–3

  nuclear science 217

  Nukun (rickshaw puller) 183–4, 190

  O’Donohue, John 127–8, 131, 146

  O’Donovan, Gerald 130–1

  O’Muyrchu, Diarmuid 95

  ordination of women 93

  O’Siadhail, Michael 147–9

  Oxborrow, Nanny 3–4

  Pakistan 75, 108, 174

  Panvel, Barbara 242

  partition 75

  Patel, I. G. 219, 220

  Patel, Zarin 237

  Paul, St 153, 172, 266

  pluralism see religion politics 77, 89–90, 105–6, 194–5, 262–4

  post–modernism 11, 16

  Prasad, Lalu 234

  Priestland, Gerald 62–3

  privatisation 229–32

  Pugin, Augustus 133

  Punja, Shobita 161–3

  purdah 108–9

  Puri 1–5, 6–8, 248

  Puritan values 244–5

  Radhakrishnan, Sarvapalli 44, 45, 49, 56–7, 63, 84, 98, 213, 245, 246

  railways 230, 232–4

  Raine, Kathleen 149–50

  Raipur 72–4

  Rajneesh, Bhagwan 166

  Rake, Katherine 156–7

  Ram, Budh 61–2, 202–6

  Rama, Swami 65–6

  Ramananda 60–1

  Ramayana 170–2, 254–5, 258

  Ram–Prasad, Chakravarthi 45–6, 124

  Ramsey, Michael 164

  Rao, Narasimha 182

  rationalism/reason 71

  balance with intuition 125

  balance with revelation 53–5

  emphasis at Marlborough 22, 31, 38

  vs. imagination 85–7

  Indian 123–4

  in modernism 10–11

  Ravi Das, Sant 61, 62, 206

  Ravindra, Ravi 113–14

  Reagan, Ronald 206

  religion

  demise in Ireland 127–8

  doubt 35–6r />
  faith in progress as substitute 217

  fear of 103–9

  hostility to 12, 109–11

  indifference to 120–2

  at Marlborough 23, 27–8, 31

  pluralism 5–6, 43–4, 46, 74, 77, 79–91

  and reason 53, 86–7

  and science 54–5, 112–20

  and spirituality 95–6

  and yoga 64, 67, 68–9

  religious festivals 101–3, 258–9 see also specific festivals

  retail 191–2

  Rishikesh 64, 67

  Roman Catholic Church/Roman Catholics 43, 69, 92, 97, 109, 121

  and celibacy 137, 153, 154–5, 172

  in Ireland 127–50, 174

  persecution of 104

  and pluralism 80–7

  romantic love 163–6

  Roy, Ramohan 61

  Runcie, Robert 36, 93–4

  Russell, Bertrand 114

  Rutter, John 100

  Ryan, Samuel 82

  Sachs, Jeffrey 188

  Sacks, Rabbi Jonathan 13, 213, 219

  Sarasvati, Swami Dayanand 79

  Saraswati, Swami Avimukteshwaranand 266–7, 268

  Saravana Bhavan 194

  science and technology 11

  advances 112–13

  blind acceptance of progress 217–18

  and existence of God 33, 36, 41, 112

  and faith 255–6

  and religion 54–5, 112–20

  and the mysterious 53

  scientism 113–14

  ‘Sea of Faith’ 36

  secularism 11–12, 100–26, 127

  Sen, Amartya 15, 46, 123–4, 198

  sexual abstinence see celibacy

  sexual abuse 115, 136–7

  sexual morality 10, 23, 34, 36, 92, 134–5, 143

  sexual mores 151–73

  sexual revolution 155–8, 172

  sexual taboos 168–9

  Shaw, Frank 31–2

  Shiva 6, 61, 73, 248, 261–2, 164

  and Parvati 161–3, 164–6, 172, 261

  Shyam, Jangarh Singh 78

  Sikhism/Sikhs 43, 61, 102, 191

  conflict 51–2, 75–7

  Singh, Charan 241–2

  Singh, Karan 56

  Singh, Manmohan 182, 187, 195–6, 219, 220

  Singh, Shashank 257–8

  Smuts, Jan Christian 47

  Smyth, Geraldine 132, 136, 142

  socialism 9, 28–9, 175–7, 180–1

  Something Understood 19–20, 94

  Soros, George 189, 190, 199

  South Africa 46–7

  Spinoza 213

  spirituality 94–97, 149–50, 197

  Srivastava, Paul 214

  Stalin 104

  Steadall, Jonathan 61

  Stiglitz, Joseph 181, 188–9, 198

  suffering 118–19

  sustainable development 211

  Tacey, David 94

  Tandon, Purshottam Das 110–11

  Tantra 166–8

  Tarnas, Richard 11, 172–3

  Tennyson 71

  Teresa, Mother 58, 81, 185

  terrorism 103–4

  Thatcher, Dennis 180

  Thatcher, Margaret 93, 180, 189, 230