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Title: Key to India the Indians sometimes seem to have lost ...
Review: A classical account on India - fresh, vivid, humorous, sometimes partially, but in many respects until this very day an excellent indtroduction in Indian thought and behaviour!What we didn't know until Sylvia Murrs detective-like analysis of manuscripts: the late Abbé (1766-1848) had a ghostwriter - he owned an older manuscript of the Ex-Jesuit Coeurdoux (+ 1691-1779), a brilliant scholar of Indian customs and lifelong observer of his exotic environment. Dubois added to his model many sociological and ethnical observations - a real teamwork ...The book is of outstanding interest - both authors lived in all more than 90 years in a continent whom they tried to understand - not in vain.This book represents in a certain sense the key to Indian manners and customs the Indians themselves sometimes seem to have lost ...* In 2002 there came out a German translation with commentary
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