A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in Eastern India: Bihar and Orissa

Not for Norman Lewis the tourist sights of Delhi and Rajasthan. His travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar, scene of a brutal caste war between the untouchables and higher-caste gangsters. From these violent happenings, he heads down the west coast of Bengal and into the highlands of Orissa to testify to the life of the caste-free indigenous 'tribals', who have survived here in isolation. There is much to be learned from these threatened cultures and Lewis is the perfect guide. ' Norman Lewis's best travel book, beautifully written and containing information about areas and tribes of India that I have never read elsewhere .' - Nicholas Coleridge, Literary Review