That's India: The Memoirs of an Old India Hand - Hardcover

Henry Scholberg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8185002304 ISBN 13: 9788185002309

Publisher: Promilla & Co Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

That's India is, as its title suggests, ""The Memoirs of an Old India Hand."" In ""The Early Years"" the author tells of his antecedents, his childhood in the land of his birth, India, and in that of his nationality, America. It goes on to his college days at the University of Illinois, the war years and then his career as a newspaperman. Finally are ""The Library Years"" where he found his calling in the world of books. ""That's Write"" has samples of his writings and at the end photos to tell the reader what he looked like at various stages of his life.

Henry Scholberg was born in India and spent most of his childhood there. During World War II he was a conscientious objector and a ""guinea pig"" in the semi-starvation experiment at the University of Minnesota. After the war he became a librarian and served twenty-five years as curator of the Ames Library of South Asia, a world famous collection on India.

About this title

About the Author:

The author of this book, Henry Scholberg, is a Third World Citizen. Who is a Third World Citizen? This is a person who was born in and grew up in a country other than that of his nationality. Is this person confused about his national identity? Perhaps. Should one feel sorry for such a person? No!

"I am lucky to be a citizen of two countries, India and America," Scholberg says, "and sometimes I don't know which country I love more."

Scholberg was born in Darjeeling in 1921 to American Methodist missionary parents. Between 1921 and 1939 (the year he graduated from a Presbyterian high school in Mussoorie), he lived twelve years in India. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1943.

First, he served as an orderly in a mental hospital and at the end of the war made two trips to Poland as a "sea-going cowboy," helping take American cattle there to replenish the livestock devastation of World War II. Between those two assignments he volunteered as a human guinea pig in a semi-starvation program at the University of Minnesota that lasted forty-eight weeks, during which he lost about forty pounds. The purpose of the project was to first and most efficient way to rehabilitate victims of starvation during the war.

In 1961 after a slint as a newspaperman and earning a couple more degrees, he became Curator of the Ames Library of South Asia at the University of Minnesota, one of the premier collections on India in the world. He retired in 1986. Since then he has devoted much of his time and energy to writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Promilla & Co Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 8185002304
• ISBN 13: 9788185002309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214