“A comprehensive index to enigmatic India.”
A reader, 2003 · name to follow
Readers’ Circle
Conversation, kept next to the text.
Three ways to take part: write to the editor and see selected responses published here; annotate a passage in the reading room; or join a reading group or talk. Everything public is read before it appears.
Readers’ responses
Published with the writer’s name and city · newest first
“A store-house of both oriental and occidental knowledge.”
A reader, 2003 · name to follow
The first new responses are published here as they arrive.
Annotate the text, in the margin.
In the reading room, select a passage to highlight it or add a note. Notes can be public, private, or shared with a group — a class, a reading circle, early readers of a new edition. Public notes are reviewed before they show.
Opens with the reading room, after the publishing rights return.
See the reading roomBut the study of a people will never be sound or perfect without study of its inhabited land and also of its contiguous or neighbouring lands, as the neighbouring influences always create forces to be reckoned with.
A reader · public
A note on the highlighted words.
Reply · Share
Reading groups and talks
SoonThe first reading groupTopic 1, The Landscape · online · one hour. Subscribe to the letter to be told the date.
A hosted members’ space (threads, groups, recordings) is added when the circle grows past a few hundred active readers.
The letter
New chapters, plates and essays, a few times a year.
Reply to any issue and it reaches the editor.
Write to the editor
Responses to a chapter, corrections, questions for the author’s representative, or requests to quote or reproduce a plate. Selected responses are published above with your name; say if you would rather they were not.
Participation note: keep to the text and the argument; no personal remarks about the author or other readers.