Jeffrey N. Dupée

Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi

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Produktbeschreibung

Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914-1948. Most of the travel writers surveyed understood this era to be a unique time in world history-in India and elsewhere on the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780761839491
• ISBN-10: 0761839496
• Artikelnr.: 23439886

Autorenporträt

By Jeffrey N. Dupée

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 India's Lure:
Traveler Motivations and Aspirations Chapter 4 Katherine Mayo and the Great
'Mother India' Debate Chapter 5 The British Colonialist Debate: 'A
Pigmentary Aristocracy?' Chapter 6 The Independence Debate: Wrestling with
the 'Peter-Pan Theory' Chapter 7 The Ghandi Debate: Indian 'Fakir' or
Heroic Independence Leader? Chapter 8 'An Observation of No Value': India's
Poverty, Disease, and Suffering Chapter 9 The Search for the Elusive Indian
Chapter 10 The Search for the Elusive Spirituality Chapter 11 The Paradox
of Caste: East and West Chapter 12 From Bazaar to the Bizarre: India as
Terra Exotica Chapter 13 Benares: Journey to the Soul of India Chapter 14
Calcutta, Delhi, and Bombay: Urban Itineraries Chapter 15 Princely States
and Pauper Villages Part 16 Bibliography Part 17 Index