 | Dennison Berwick - Ganges River (India and Bangladesh) - 1986 - 260 pages
...some depth of soul which I could not fathom, though I had occasional and tantalizing glimpses of it. She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer...hidden or erased what had been written previously. My enthusiasm for the luxury of the Sarang Hotel was tempered only slightly the next day when I began... | |
 | Michael M. Ames - Antiques & Collectibles - 1992 - 232 pages
...Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India (1946:47, quoted in Singer 1988:13) that Indian civilization is 'like some ancient palimpsest,' on which layer upon layer of thought and revery had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been... | |
 | Farley P. Richmond, Darius L. Swann, Phillip B. Zarrilli - Folklore - 1993 - 518 pages
...THE LATE PRIME MINISTER JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, struggling to unravel India's mystery, described her as an ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought...hidden or erased what had been written previously. . . . Though outwardly there was diversity and infinite variety among our people, everywhere there... | |
 | Susan M. Pearce - Antiques & Collectibles - 1994 - 364 pages
...Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India (1946: 47, quoted in Singer 1988: 13) that Indian civilization is 'like some ancient palimpsest', on which layer upon layer of thought and revery had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been... | |
 | Shashi Tharoor - Business & Economics - 2006 - 428 pages
...future. Nehru articulated a vision of India as pluralism vindicated by history: India . . . was like an ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought...hidden or erased what had been written previously. . . . Though outwardly there was diversity and infinite variety among our people, everywhere there... | |
 | Shashi Tharoor - Business & Economics - 2006 - 428 pages
...future. Nehru articulated a vision of India as pluralism vindicated by history: India . . . was like an ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought...hidden or erased what had been written previously. . . . Though outwardly there was diversity and infinite variety among our people, everywhere there... | |
 | S. P. Ruhela - History - 1997 - 136 pages
...some depth of soul which I could not fathom, though I had occasional and tantalizing glimpses of it. She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reveree had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been... | |
 | Terry F. Buss, F. Stevens Redburn, Kristina Guo - Business & Economics - 2006 - 340 pages
...painted a broad canvas of India's multifarious and tumultuous past. India appeared to him as akin to some "ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer...hidden or erased what had been written previously." While Nehru may even have accepted many of the assumptions of colonialist histories, he rejected the... | |
 | José Luiz Martinez - Music - 2001 - 430 pages
...forms and concepts may evoke the idea of a palimpsest, to which Nehru once likened Indian culture: 'She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer...hidden or erased what had been written previously' (1964: 60). In some respects, what Lannoy says about the Indians - that they have an 'instinct for... | |
 | Shashi Tharoor - India - 2003 - 316 pages
...reality? Nehru articulated a vision of India as pluralism vindicated by history: India . . . was like an ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought...hidden or erased what had been written previously. . . . Though outwardly there was diversity and infinite variety among our people, everywhere there... | |
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She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously. 
