Originally published as: Empire of the soul: some journeys in India. Toronto, Ont. : Stoddart, 1994.
Contents; Introduction; Prologue; 1: 'Who's in Charge Here?' -- Bombay, 1974; 2: 'Meditate More and Find Out' -- Bangalore, 1974; 3: 'I Am Always with You' -- Puttaparthi, 1974-75; 4: 'Bhagavan Is Still with Us' -- Bangalore to Tiruvannamalai, 1975; 5: 'A Flame of Faith' -- Goa, 1975-76; 6: 'We Should Share Our Sex Energies' -- Poona, 1976; 7: 'I Like Too Much the Phfit-Phfit' -- Bombay to Swat, 1976; 8: 'If I Didn't Want You to Leave This Place You Never Could' -- Bangalore to Venkatagiri, 1977; 9: 'Many Ghost Here' -- Jaisalmer, 1990; 10: 'There's Bloodletting as We Speak' -- Calcutta, 1992.
11: 'There's Far Too Much Muck to Rake Here!' -- Bombay, 199212: 'Europeans Are Coming to My Country Now' -- The Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay, 1903-1992; 13: 'No Like A-feesh?' -- Bangalore to Puttaparthi, 1992; 14: 'It Is Not My Fire That Burn You Here' -- Benares, 1992; Epilogue: The Father of the World; Summersdale Books.
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Paul William Roberts' journeys through India span twenty years, and in Empire of the Soul, he creates a dazzling mosaic, by turns tragic and comic, of the subcontinent and its people. From the crumbling palaces of maharajas to the slums of Calcutta; from the ashrams of holy men to a millionaire drug dealer's heavily guarded fortress on India's border with China, Roberts captures the lure of this enigmatic land - this empire of the soul.