Field trip to India: HELP!

[y.r.rani at mail.utexas.edu]

Beatrice,
Last spring H-ASIA had quite a long thread discussing this very topic.
You can access their archives.  If this type of internet jargon is
difficult to understand, perhaps  Frank Conlon <conlon at u.washington.edu>
can help you.  Nonetheless, there is a copious amount of info concerning
the very topic about which you inquired in the  H-ASIA Fileserver.

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