It is good to see that at long last imaginative books are being written on otherwise dull subjects. As the name suggests, Kuriyan’s book is indeed a very good general survey of India. The purpose of this little book is to provide, in a consolidated manner, a comprehensive picture of India. It has a broad sweep, covering the physiography, climate, soils, natural vegetation, irrigation, agriculture, animal husbandry, power resources and development, industries, transport, population, and India’s ethnic and linguistic composition. The chief attraction of this book is that instead of making it a purely factual, and therefore dull, narrative the author has dealt with his subject-matter in a most readable manner
January 1976, volume 1, No 1