The Web of Indian Life


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The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that describes India at the turn of the 20th century. “What a beautiful old world it was in which I spent those months! It moved slowly, to a different rhythm from anything that one had known. It was a world in which a great thought or intense emotion was held as the true achievement, distinguishing the day as no deed could. It was a world in which men in loin-cloths, seated on door-sills in dusty lanes, said things about Shakespeare and Shelley that some of us would go far to hear. It was full of gravity, simplicity, and the solid and enduring reality of great character and will.” (quote from Chapter 1 of The Web of Indian Life) (8 hr 35 min)

Chapters

The Setting of the Warp 29:35 Read by Anonymous
The Eastern Mother 20:35 Read by Anonymous
Of the Hindu Woman as Wife 28:10 Read by Anonymous
Love Strong as Death 22:09 Read by Anonymous
The Place of Woman in National Life 35:49 Read by Anonymous
The Immediate Problems of the Oriental Woman 32:45 Read by Anonymous
The Indian Sagas 40:18 Read by Anonymous
Noblesse Oblige: A Study of Indian Caste 39:38 Read by Anonymous
The Synthesis of Indian Thought 54:48 Read by Anonymous
The Oriental Experience 20:06 Read by Anonymous
The Wheel of Birth and Death 27:12 Read by Anonymous
The Story of the Great God: Siva or Mahadev 26:35 Read by Anonymous
The Gospel of the Blessed One 31:05 Read by Anonymous
Islam in India 30:37 Read by Anonymous
An Indian Pilgrimage 29:47 Read by Anonymous
On the Loom of Time 45:51 Read by Anonymous