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1 NEH Summer Institute 2013

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3 Getting Around The Metro - for the “efficient” traveler Metro – clean and efficient Even a “Ladies Only” Car

4 For the “Adrenaline Junkie” traveler- Knock at death’s door in the auto-rickshaw Forget the meter!!

5 For the “Traditional” traveler - the bicycle rickshaw

6 For the “adventurist” Peddle to mobile store Wander the narrow streets

7 For “individualists” travelers

8 And for those non-conformists who want to avoid streets altogether...

9 Monsoon Season - flooding

10 “MAHATMA” GANDHI

11 Gandhi – Salt March Non- violent Civil Disobedience Commemorative statue - Delhi

12 Memorial to Gandhi’s Memory Tushar Ghandhi -great-grandson The Eternal Flame

13 Quotes at Memorial

14 Tushar Gandhi – Great-grandson Lectures at Birla House where Gandhi stayed last few months of his life

15 Taj Mahal (17 th c) at dawn in the rain

16 Details

17 Twin Mosques each side

18 View of Entry Gate from Taj View from the formal gardens

19 Taj Mahal Perimeter Walk View of Yamuna River from rear

20 Shah Jahan, the builder View of Taj across Yamuna River from his prison Room

21 The holy Hindu city of Varanasi (formerly called Benares) “Benares is older than history, Older than tradition, Older even than legend. And it looks twice as old as all of them put together.” Mark Twain

22 Sharing the street

23 Varanasi’s narrow streets

24 “Putting Ganges River to Sleep” Daily ritual by Hindu Brahmin Priests at Varanasi

25 Hindu shrines everywhere in city

26 Getting things done in Delhi Haggling in street markets Another sole saved !

27 Indian Tea

28 Streets in Old Delhi section Electric wires!!!School kids in street

29 Street Scenes Crowded street Old Delhi School’s out – ties are off!

30 Back in School David Campion lectures on the British Rule Literature Discussion

31 Thank you, NEH !!! For information on future seminars and institutes go to: http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/summer- seminars-and-institutes

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