The chapter, ‘India, Indophiles and Indenture’, analyses the roles played by western exponents as interlocutors between the British officials and the Indian labour classes. Andrews and Pearson proved successful in calling attention to the plight of labourers in Mauritius, Fiji, and South and East Africa.
While depicting the story of a visionary’s life in minute detail, the authors have paid careful attention not to reduce the personality to a straitjacket. For instance, even though Karve was a rationalist who led by example, engaging enthusiastically even with the staunchest critiques of his magazine
Over four immersive chapters, Oza unravels for the reader what she is discovering. The first is on consent, where Oza deals directly with the question of ‘false cases’ to understand the complicated stories behind them, through the case of a consensual inter-caste relationship that when discovered becomes framed as a rape case by the family of the woman.
A brief life history of this remarkable lady must be narrated here to understand how without professing to be a radical feminist in her ideas, the protagonist was very open-minded even while functioning within the domestic parameters of her existence.
On his return to India Jagat Murari spent several years at the Films Division in Bombay. While very few readers would have seen or remembered his films, this section of the book introduces a major theme of the book, his problems with his bureaucratic superiors.
Subsequent chapters present biographical and intellectual portraits of seminal figures in modern psychology, including Freud, Adler, Jung, Erikson, Maslow, Rogers, Piaget, Bandura, William James, and Simone de Beauvoir.