Since 1974 Dr. Abdul Khaliq Kaifi traveled altogether with his German wife and his children and grandchildren for some thirteen times to India, visited his birth place and family members in the Ganges valley of Bihar, the heart of India as a cradle of the Indian faiths and empires, and journey together to the ancient and British colonial places of India. The bibliography of his childhood gives a fascinating insight into the ancient multicultural traditions of the country. For a traveler, this book is short information on the past and present of India.
Since 1953, India has been my spiritual home and the narrations of Dr. A. K. Kaifi remind me of my attachements.
Thilo Hobelmann, Indologist
Ten years of my life, I travelled in the world; India was its culmination. The description of Dr. A. K. Kaifi brings me back to its facet and fascination.
Dr. Viorel Roman, Historian
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Höhe: 215 mm
Breite: 135 mm
Dicke: 7 mm
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978-3-7543-6445-1 (9783754364451)
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Dr. Abdul Khaliq was born in 1933 in the state of Bihar (India). He did his Middle and Matriculation in the British schools of his village in Shakrafaridpur, which was opened by a British farmer there. In Mumbai, he studied in a missionary college of Wilson, and after completing his Bachelor of Arts in Economy 1956, he went on a contract service for three years as a bookkeeper in the Britsh Petroleum of Qatar. From Qatar, he took a ship for Basra and then traveled further on the legendary train of Orient Express to Köln, where he made his Diplom- Kaufmann and underwent a librarian training for higher services in Universities libraries of Germany, did as well his Doctorate at the University of Oldenburg. Since 1971 he worked as a civil servant (Referent) and departmental chief (Oberbibliotheksrat) in the University Library of Bremen, till his retirement in 1998. He is married since 1968 to a German and possess the German citizenship since 1972. He worked too as a lecturer and is an author of several publications on India and on the migrants in Germany.
