This book introduces the reader to the complex richness of modern India, a country where the visitors may not only find religious virtuosos contorting themselves beside holy rivers, but where he or she might also encounter India's answer to the Yuppie - the Puppy (Punjabi Urban Professional). India has a space programme, the atomic bomb and huge armed forces equipped with the latest military technology, yet the cow is still venerated and it is not unknown for prominent figures from public life to vanish, only later to announce that they have renounced the world and have decided to devote the rest of their lives to religious exercises. "Coping with India" aims to lead the business traveller or tourist through a maze of Indian social, political and religious life while providing useful information on health, money, food and drink, accommodation and travel.
- ISBN10 0631164774
- ISBN13 9780631164777
- Publish Date 1 March 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 April 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 192
- Language English