Father India
Westerners Under the Spell of an Ancient Culture
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefatherindiaweste0000pain
- ISBN-100060931019
- ISBN-139780060931018
- Goodreads606337
- Better World BooksO7-AKD-282
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780060931018
- Better World BooksO6-BXB-843
- Open LibraryOL7285035M
Classifications
- DDC954
- LCCDS413 .P28 1998
Description
Over the past hundred years, India has held an enormous fascination for western intellectuals and artists. Father India explores the life-changing influence of the subcontinent on western ideas of modernity by narrating the curious, spellbinding stories of a succession of twentieth-century Europeans and Americans. These major cultural figures - including Lord Curzon, Annie Besant, E. M. Forster, Carl Jung, William Butler Yeats, V. S. Naipaul, Christopher Isherwood, and Martin Luther King, Jr., among others - acted out their most secret dreams in India. Gandhi's answer to the question "Why now?" as he observed one westerner after another come to his own ashram, is telling: The contemporary West had misplaced its soul, and pilgrims to India were on a mission to retrieve it. In the process, their unconscious assumptions about politics, religion, and identity in their own cultures were turned upside-down and laid open to question.
First Sentence
If they had only been content to be brutes, plunderers, and oppressors, how much easier, how much better in the long run, it all might have gone.
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