Chambers Essential Guide to Indian Culture - Hardback

Chambers Essential Guide to Indian Culture outlines the nation's deep and diverse aesthetic, intellectual, athletic, and societal heritage. The scope of this comprehensive volume is not restricted to various forms of arts, festivals, and rituals alone, but it gathers within one cover indigenous sports, science, and astrology too. The book also offers a holistic overview of India's languages and strong literary traditions. This essential guide to our cultural past and present, including today's mainstream and the lesser-known, is a must-read for all Indians and curious foreigners, school or college goers, and general readers alike. This handy reference will be immensely useful to people in the administration and those working for the development sector.