Swagato Ganguly

Broschiertes Buch

Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India

Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment

Beschreibung

This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry and analyses the clash of thought within religion and paganism, history and literature, oriental thought and western metaphysics.

Autor

Swagato Ganguly is currently Editorial Page Editor, The Times of India and is based in New Delhi, India. He was educated in Kolkata, Delhi and Philadelphia. He has been a fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, Chicago, and earned a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania, after which he took up a career in journalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780367277932
• ISBN-10: 036727793X
• Artikelnr.: 56493806