A BLEND OF CULTURES
Subhadra Sen Gupta
Hinduism in Thai Life by Santosh N. Desai Popular Prakashan, New Delhi, 1981, 163 pp., 120
Nov-Dec 1981, volume 6, No 3

This study of religion and society in Thailand focusses on the Hindu cultural in¬fluences that exist in Thailand. It is always interesting to see how the values, ideas and spirit of Indian society work after coming into contact with other cultures. Santosh Desai identifies and studies how the Indian values and customs have been transformed in their passage from one cultural region to another and how they have been assimilated into a different society.

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