The Web of Indian Life
Sister Nivedita
Read by Anonymous
The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that describes India at the turn of the 20th century. “What a beautiful old world it was in which I spent those months! It moved slowly, to a different rhythm from anything that one had known. It was a world in which a great thought or intense emotion was held as the true achievement, distinguishing the day as no deed could. It was a world in which men in loin-cloths, seated on door-sills in dusty lanes, said things about Shakespeare and Shelley that some of us would go far to hear. It was full of gravity, simplicity, and the solid and enduring reality of great character and will.” (quote from Chapter 1 of The Web of Indian Life) (8 hr 35 min)
Chapters
The Setting of the Warp | 29:35 | Read by Anonymous |
The Eastern Mother | 20:35 | Read by Anonymous |
Of the Hindu Woman as Wife | 28:10 | Read by Anonymous |
Love Strong as Death | 22:09 | Read by Anonymous |
The Place of Woman in National Life | 35:49 | Read by Anonymous |
The Immediate Problems of the Oriental Woman | 32:45 | Read by Anonymous |
The Indian Sagas | 40:18 | Read by Anonymous |
Noblesse Oblige: A Study of Indian Caste | 39:38 | Read by Anonymous |
The Synthesis of Indian Thought | 54:48 | Read by Anonymous |
The Oriental Experience | 20:06 | Read by Anonymous |
The Wheel of Birth and Death | 27:12 | Read by Anonymous |
The Story of the Great God: Siva or Mahadev | 26:35 | Read by Anonymous |
The Gospel of the Blessed One | 31:05 | Read by Anonymous |
Islam in India | 30:37 | Read by Anonymous |
An Indian Pilgrimage | 29:47 | Read by Anonymous |
On the Loom of Time | 45:51 | Read by Anonymous |