In Democracy in America, Tocqueville proclaimed that equality of social class would eventually prevail everywhere. In The Old Regime and the French Revolution,
he analysed the long and painful struggle between a centralising modern
State and an old and complex society based on rank. His "Notes on
India" written in the early 1840s revealed a penetrating understanding
of Indian mores and customs in his time. What, then, if he went to India
today to see for himself how the sub-continent is coping with its
contradictions ?
Roger Greaves s’est arrêté par hasard en Haute Provence en 1975 pour
écrire un livre et n’en est jamais vraiment reparti. Ces « histoires »
pleines d’amour et d’humour témoignent de son attachement à un pays où,
tout estrangier qu’il y est resté, il s’est senti un peu chez lui.