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INDEX
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Abbeyfield Society 47–8
Abraham 26
Ackoff, Russell L. 240
Adams, Douglas 119–20
advertising 156
agriculture 179–80, 190–1, 214–15
Ahmedabad 104–6
Akbar, M. J. 107
Allahabad 8, 66
Ambani, Mukesh 193
Ambassador car 177–9
Ambedkar, Bhim Rao 61
Anglican Cathedral, Delhi 42–3
Anglican Church/Anglicanism 27, 35, 62, 63, 87, 128, 153
and homosexuality 92
Runcie’s leadership 93–4
and spirituality 95–6
and yoga 64, 67
Annan, Kofi 188
Apostolic Christian Assembly 80
Armstrong, Karen 87, 107, 149
Arya Samaj sect 78–9
Augustine, St 153–4
automobile industry 177–9, 183
Badrinath, Chaturvedi (Badri) 16–17, 45, 126
Baru, Sanjaya 187
Basavanna 61
BBC 3–4, 14, 48–9, 57, 74, 76, 89, 94, 121, 176, 214, 241
Birt’s changes 235–9
Beames, John 7–8
Benedict XVI, Pope (Cardinal Ratzinger) 82, 133
Beslan tragedy 117
Betjeman, John 23–4, 27, 37
Bhagavad Gita 212–13, 245–6
Bhai, Suhail 260
Bhakti movement 60–1
Bhalla, Surjit S. 201
Bharati, Swami Veda 65, 66–70
Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) 77, 89, 90, 105, 106, 122, 169, 186, 192, 200–1, 249, 251, 263
Bhasin, Kamla 171
Bhatrihari 36
Bhatt, Ela 105
Bhindranwale, Sant Jarnail Singh 51, 52
Bhopal disaster 214
Bhutan 202
Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali 174
Big Fight, The 15–16
Birt, John 235–9
Blackburn, Simon 101, 109
Blair, Tony 120, 180, 229
BNR Hotel, Puri 1–3, 4
Boden, Rebecca 227–9
Brahma 6
Brendon, Vyvyen 3
Britain/UK 10, 20, 43
‘Battle of Edmonton’ 212
class system 57
dissatisfaction 243
and globalisation 187–8, 189, 191, 194
loss of religious festivals 258–9
management culture 227–9, 244
need for pluralism 91, 98
privatisation 229–31
socialist vs. market economics 180
Buddha 118, 248, 259
Buddhism 60, 96
burqas 107–8
Burt, T. S. 152
Bush, George W. 106, 180–1
business culture 225–47
Cambridge University 15, 21, 32, 33, 34–6, 38, 49, 57, 80–1, 100–1, 109, 195
Campbell, Alistair 121
Car Festival 7–8
Carr-Gomm, Richard 47–8
cars 177–9, 210–11, 218
caste system 55–62
Cato, Molly Scott 242–3
celibacy 137, 153–5, 169–70, 172, 221
Chandra, Ram (Chandre) 59
Chapman, Mark D. 229
Charles, Prince 81, 88, 125
Chilton, Geoff 32
Christadas, Father 85
Christian Brothers 136–7
Christian Meditation Movement 97
Christianity/Christians 5, 26, 43, 49, 52, 59, 65, 268
beliefs about society 28, 57–8, 60
British media hostility 109–10, 120–1
and certainty 45, 46
conversion 78–80, 249
decline 10, 91
denunciation by Hindu nationalists 72, 73, 74, 78–9
‘no man’s land’ metaphor 98–9
and pluralism 79–87, 91
and possessions 213
and providence 216–17
revelation vs. reason 54–5
and science 33, 54–5
and sexual morality 10, 34, 92, 134–5, 153–5
and spirituality 95–6, 97
and suffering 118–19
Churches of North and South India 42, 43
Clarke, Richard 98
Coca Cola 186–7
Cole, John 235
communications technologies 218
Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI) 215
Congress Party 105, 219
consumerism 122, 193–4, 211–13, 218–19, 222
Coomeraswamy, Ananada K. 113 ‘Counting the Costs’ 242–3
Cunningham, Alexander 153
Cupitt, Don 36
Dalai Lama 96, 222
Darjeeling 224–6
Das, Gurcharan 111
Dawkins, Richard 114–17
death 265–6
Delaney, Father 128–9
Delhi 14, 39–43, 48–9, 76, 81, 82, 94–5, 101, 102, 183–6, 187, 207, 237
Desai, Morarji 39, 90, 105, 170
Descartes, René 11
Devi, Shri Mataji Nirmala 197
dialogue and discussion 13–17, 42, 46
Diwali 256, 258
Dodd, Mark 49, 151
dogmatic certainty 9, 10–13
Doniger, Wendy 159, 160
Duffy, Eamon 109
Dupuis, Jacques 82–4
Durga Puja festival 44
Eck, Diana 249, 262
economic growth 200–23
economics 9–10, 175–99
Edgar, David 107–8
education 227, 228–9
author’s 21–38
and management culture 227, 228–9
Eid 102, 252
Einstein, Albert 53
Enlightenment 31, 174
evil 116–18
experience 49–53, 68–9, 86–7
and reason 53–5, 86–7
Faces of India 202
Falklands War 93
Fardid, Ahmed 12
fate 17–18, 30–1, 48–9
Fawcett Society 156–7
female/male balance 172–3
Fennell, Desmond 144
Fermor, Patrick Leigh 154–5
Fitzgerald, Garrett 136, 145–6
Ford, David 101
Forrington, Victor 37, 41
Francis, Philip 246–7
Fraser, Giles 95
Freeman, Lawrence 97
fundamentalism 12
biblical 54
Muslim 12, 106–9
secular 109–11
Fundamentally Wrong 108
Galbraith, J. J. 206
Gandhi, Indira 14, 76, 90, 105, 177, 180, 186
Gandhi, Mahatma 5, 12–13, 16, 40, 46–7, 61, 75, 104, 111, 123, 169, 201, 219–22
Gandhi, Rajiv 76
Ganga (Ganges) River 64, 66, 248, 250, 254, 256–7, 258, 261, 263, 264–5
Gates, Bill 210
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) 175, 200–1, 215–16
Gearey, Robert Wade 62
globalisation 186–99
God (Ultimate Reality) 26
Blair and 120–1
Dawkins and 115–16
existence of 35–6, 38, 41, 70–1, 81, 112, 113
experience of 31, 38, 50–1, 52–3, 63, 67, 68–9, 92, 113
and evil 117, 118
Hindu view 45, 98
many ways to 2, 33, 65, 70, 80, 101, 266
masculine presence 172
and providence 216–17
and suffering 119
as truth 65
Golden Temple (Amritsar) 51
‘Operation Blue Star’ attack 51–2, 75
Gray, John 11–12, 217
Gresley, Nigel 26
Griffiths, Bede 84–7, 268
Gujral, Inder 14
Hague, William 133
Haldane, John 120
Hamilton, Clive 156, 192–3, 201–2, 215
Handy, Charles 212
Hannan, Patrick 134–5, 144
Hare, M. E. 17
Harling, Colonel 22
Hayes, John 138–9, 140
health 184–5
Healy, Sean 215
Heber, Reginald 114
Heredia, Father Rudi 83
Hicks, John 215
Hindu–Muslim conflict 74–5, 89, 104–6, 249–53, 255
Hinduism/Hindus 1, 5–9, 43, 44–6, 49, 55, 65, 101, 102, 248, 259, 265
and Indian Catholicism 81–2, 85
nationalist/extremist 12–13, 72–4, 77, 79, 89, 192
pluralism of 5, 46, 88–9, 111
and sexuality 152–3, 158–63
see also caste system, Tantra; yoga Hindustan Lever 226
Hindustan Motors 177–9
Hines, Colin 225–6
Hitler 104
homosexuality 19, 34, 91–2, 159
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 50–1
Hopper, Kenneth and William 239–40, 245
Hughes, Gerard 62–3, 67
humility 18–19, 20, 22, 25, 46–7, 125, 216, 239, 247, 266–7
Husain, Imam 102
Hussein, Saddam 120
Hussey, Marmaduke 238
Ignatius, St 246
Imhasly–Gandhy, Rashna 155, 171
Iranian revolution 12
Ireland 10, 91, 158, 215
Roman Catholic Church in 127–50, 174
Irwin, Lord 42, 43
Islam/Muslims 44, 65, 81, 101, 102, 174, 213, 248
denunciation by Hindu nationalists 72–5, 77
fundamentalism 12, 106–9
and pluralism 87–90
see also Hindu/Muslim conflict
Iyengar, B. K. S. 64
Jacob, Satish 76
Jaffrelot, Christophe 79
Jagganath 6–7
Jama Masjid mosque 89–90, 102
Jerome, St 154
Jesuits 62–3, 80–4
Jinnah, Mohammad Ali 75
Jnanadeva 60
John Paul II, Pope 127, 142
Johnson, Robert A. 164
Jordan, Father Tom 138, 140
Judaism 213, 219
Kakar, Sudhir 159, 160, 168
Kalidas 165
Kama Sutra 158–60
Kapoor, Harshpal 260
Kartik Purnima festival 1, 2, 4–5, 6, 9
Kelly, Father 128, 129
Keynes, John Maynard 215
Khajuraho temples 151–3, 160–3
Khanna, Madhu 166
Kipling, Rudyard 3, 220
Kolkata 39, 42, 44, 81, 225
Krishna 6, 212–13, 245–6
Kumar, Rajiv 196–8, 216, 218–19
Kuznets, Simon 215–16
Lal, Harbans 48–9
Lannoy, Richard 264, 265
Lewis, C. S. 109–10
Lewis, Patricia Maxwell 121
Lincoln Theological College 36–7
Lipner, Julius 259
Liptons 226
liturgy 27–8
Luther, Martin 154
Macmillan, Harold 229
Magdalene Laundries 137–8
Maha Kumbh Mela festival 8–9, 66–7
Mahabharata 39, 126
Maharaj, Acharya Kripa Shankarji 171
Mahashrivrati festival 161–3
Main, John 97
management see business culture
market capitalism 9, 180–6, 195–6, 236
Marlborough College 21–34, 38, 156
materialism 120, 123, 142–3, 267
Maynooth seminary 128, 130–5, 140
McAinsh, Eley 20
McCarthy, J. J. 133
McConvery, Brendan 132, 133
McGahern, John 144
McWilliams, David 141–2, 143
media
attitude to religion 120–2
hostility to Irish Church 140–1
promotion of conflict 15–16, 250–1
promotion of consumerism 193–4
Menon, Ritu 171
meritocracy 58
Methodists 42
Microsoft India 207–10
Mill, John Stuart 243–4
Miller, John 31
Mintzberg, Henry 239–40
Mirabehn 5
Mishra, Veer Bhadra 251, 252–3, 253–7
modernism 10–11, 16
Modi, Narendra 106
moral economics 196–8
morality 92, 134–8 see also sexual morality
Muggeridge, Malcolm 221
Muslims see Islam
myth 86–7
Nanda, B. R. 220
National Service 29
nature 50–1, 214, 257
Naxalites 196–7
Nayak, Radhakant 59–60
Nehru, Jawaharlal 75, 110, 176, 179, 193, 257
neti 16, 45, 53, 99
Nomani, Abdul Batin 251–3
nuclear science 217
Nukun (rickshaw puller) 183–4, 190
O’Donohue, John 127–8, 131, 146
O’Donovan, Gerald 130–1
O’Muyrchu, Diarmuid 95
ordination of women 93
O’Siadhail, Michael 147–9
Oxborrow, Nanny 3–4
Pakistan 75, 108, 174
Panvel, Barbara 242
partition 75
Patel, I. G. 219, 220
Patel, Zarin 237
Paul, St 153, 172, 266
pluralism see religion politics 77, 89–90, 105–6, 194–5, 262–4
post–modernism 11, 16
Prasad, Lalu 234
Priestland, Gerald 62–3
privatisation 229–32
Pugin, Augustus 133
Punja, Shobita 161–3
purdah 108–9
Puri 1–5, 6–8, 248
Puritan values 244–5
Radhakrishnan, Sarvapalli 44, 45, 49, 56–7, 63, 84, 98, 213, 245, 246
railways 230, 232–4
Raine, Kathleen 149–50
Raipur 72–4
Rajneesh, Bhagwan 166
Rake, Katherine 156–7
Ram, Budh 61–2, 202–6
Rama, Swami 65–6
Ramananda 60–1
Ramayana 170–2, 254–5, 258
Ram–Prasad, Chakravarthi 45–6, 124
Ramsey, Michael 164
Rao, Narasimha 182
rationalism/reason 71
balance with intuition 125
balance with revelation 53–5
emphasis at Marlborough 22, 31, 38
vs. imagination 85–7
Indian 123–4
in modernism 10–11
Ravi Das, Sant 61, 62, 206
Ravindra, Ravi 113–14
Reagan, Ronald 206
religion
demise in Ireland 127–8
doubt 35–6
faith in progress as substitute 217
fear of 103–9
hostility to 12, 109–11
indifference to 120–2
at Marlborough 23, 27–8, 31
pluralism 5–6, 43–4, 46, 74, 77, 79–91
and reason 53, 86–7
and science 54–5, 112–20
and spirituality 95–6
and yoga 64, 67, 68–9
religious festivals 101–3, 258–9 see also specific festivals
retail 191–2
Rishikesh 64, 67
Roman Catholic Church/Roman Catholics 43, 69, 92, 97, 109, 121
and celibacy 137, 153, 154–5, 172
in Ireland 127–50, 174
persecution of 104
and pluralism 80–7
romantic love 163–6
Roy, Ramohan 61
Runcie, Robert 36, 93–4
Russell, Bertrand 114
Rutter, John 100
Ryan, Samuel 82
Sachs, Jeffrey 188
Sacks, Rabbi Jonathan 13, 213, 219
Sarasvati, Swami Dayanand 79
Saraswati, Swami Avimukteshwaranand 266–7, 268
Saravana Bhavan 194
science and technology 11
advances 112–13
blind acceptance of progress 217–18
and existence of God 33, 36, 41, 112
and faith 255–6
and religion 54–5, 112–20
and the mysterious 53
scientism 113–14
‘Sea of Faith’ 36
secularism 11–12, 100–26, 127
Sen, Amartya 15, 46, 123–4, 198
sexual abstinence see celibacy
sexual abuse 115, 136–7
sexual morality 10, 23, 34, 36, 92, 134–5, 143
sexual mores 151–73
sexual revolution 155–8, 172
sexual taboos 168–9
Shaw, Frank 31–2
Shiva 6, 61, 73, 248, 261–2, 164
and Parvati 161–3, 164–6, 172, 261
Shyam, Jangarh Singh 78
Sikhism/Sikhs 43, 61, 102, 191
conflict 51–2, 75–7
Singh, Charan 241–2
Singh, Karan 56
Singh, Manmohan 182, 187, 195–6, 219, 220
Singh, Shashank 257–8
Smuts, Jan Christian 47
Smyth, Geraldine 132, 136, 142
socialism 9, 28–9, 175–7, 180–1
Something Understood 19–20, 94
Soros, George 189, 190, 199
South Africa 46–7
Spinoza 213
spirituality 94–97, 149–50, 197
Srivastava, Paul 214
Stalin 104
Steadall, Jonathan 61
Stiglitz, Joseph 181, 188–9, 198
suffering 118–19
sustainable development 211
Tacey, David 94
Tandon, Purshottam Das 110–11
Tantra 166–8
Tarnas, Richard 11, 172–3
Tennyson 71
Teresa, Mother 58, 81, 185
terrorism 103–4
Thatcher, Dennis 180
Thatcher, Margaret 93, 180, 189, 230