ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author introduces to "viability" and its meaning near the end of her 50 years of service in India. Hie lectures which appealed to us most were by an American who had spent ten years among farm families of North India. Bill set out for India immediately after graduation, sailing on the last ship to go via the Mediterranean and the Suez. Instead of working with illiterate farmers, he was surrounded by college students, ready to exchange their information on India for his on America. South Indians gave themselves credit for being more advanced than Indians of the North. Hinduism is powerful enough to unite all of India. There were smaller religious groups—Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Parsees, and others, loyal to their religion, but they were overshadowed by the giant, Hinduism. There were reform movements within Hinduism, like the Brahmo Samaj, limited to Brahmins, and the Arya Samaj, and others appealing to the intelligentsia.
