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Preinhaelterová, Hana: Moje bengálské přítelkyně. 2. vyd. Foto Erika Piecková. 237 str. Liberec: Nakl. J. R. Vilímka, 1999.

ISBN 80-82210-01-4

(My Bengali friends) Everyday Hinduism from within. Etiquette, eating habits, clothing, the ideal of feminine beauty, arranged marriages, Hindu view of married life and life itself. The author draws her experience from a year's stay at a girls' hostel at the Shantiniketan University and from the inner parts of her girl-colleagues' households. Hindu habits are confronted with the writer's European behaviour and views in a partly humorous and partly philosophising way. The first edition of the book was translated into Russian and Slovak and, in an abbreviated form, into Bengali.