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Re: [RC] India? - Linda Marins----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn White" <lynndeepoo@xxxxxxxxx> John Teeter wrote: "Steph is off to India and I fear for her ability to by a ticket home!!!" After eating a couple curries and riding a Marawi horse, Steph may not want to come back to the snow of Owhyee County! Steph, please, please, please let us know if you get to ride one of these super cool horses. They look like they'd be awesome at endurance. I'll be thinking of you as I am riding through the drifts of snow...then I'll go in and eat some lamb curry. I'm re-reading "The Far Pavillions," and it looks like Rajasthan is actually Hindu, not Mogul (i.e., vegetarian and not Islamic beef + sheep OK). Desert, too; not the river-watered steppes of the Punjab. Rajasthan (the land (stan) of the kings (raj)) was not part of the British Raj (at least c. 1870's when "The Far Pavillions" is set), but a patchwork of tiny still-independent Hindu principalities. My best local Knoxville "Indian" grocery The Apna Bazaar was actually owned by Pakistanis. They recently sold out to a Hindu family. Subsequently, all of my favorite DEEP frozen meat entrees (Chicken Navrhatam-- yum!!) have disappeared from their freezers. DEEP (www.deepfoods.com) is actually headquartered and the food manufactured in New Jersey. :-) One of the by-products of the Bangalore out-sourcing revolution is that many more southern Indian folks (Hindus) are now immigrating into the US where before most "Indian" immigrants were far north-western "Indians," i.e., Islamic Pakistanis. Anybody else notice how many participants in the UAE 3-day 240km race had "Khan" as the suffix to their name? As much as I can piece together, "Khan" (as in "Ghenghis Khan" and latterly "The Agha Khan") is an Islamic status-honorific used throughout the belt of territory that includes Pakistan and the hill country that borders Afghanistan, where You-Know-Who is believed to be in hiding. I wonder if the 240km "Khan" participants were imported upper-class educated guest workers having fun in the local races. Or part of the leftover petty kingship, pan-Islamic, OPEC oil billionaire Good Ole Boys Club getting in on the latest peer status-symbol. And I agree with Lynn. I want pictures. *Lots* of pictures. And links. *Lots* of great links! Linda Marins Who Doesn't Actually Know Diddly-Squat about Rajasthan! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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