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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10982201.
- catalog coverage "India Civilization.".
- catalog coverage "India Description and travel.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Travels in Alternative Modernity -- pt. I. Society. 1. The Great Game Gone Mad. 2. Old Priestess for a New Politics -- pt. II. Self. 3. Rites Europeans Seldom Shared. 4. Head of Darkness -- pt. III. Universe. 5. Spirituality's Back Door. 6. The Gandhian Century -- Conclusion: At the End of the World -- Epilogue: Trying to Remember the Twentieth Century -- Appendix. Interpreting the Interpreters.".
- catalog extent "vii, 324 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Father India.".
- catalog identifier "0060173033".
- catalog isFormatOf "Father India.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : HarperCollins,".
- catalog relation "Father India.".
- catalog spatial "India Civilization.".
- catalog spatial "India Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "India.".
- catalog subject "954 21".
- catalog subject "DS413 .P28 1998".
- catalog subject "Europeans India.".
- catalog subject "Europeans Travel India.".
- catalog subject "Travelers India.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Travels in Alternative Modernity -- pt. I. Society. 1. The Great Game Gone Mad. 2. Old Priestess for a New Politics -- pt. II. Self. 3. Rites Europeans Seldom Shared. 4. Head of Darkness -- pt. III. Universe. 5. Spirituality's Back Door. 6. The Gandhian Century -- Conclusion: At the End of the World -- Epilogue: Trying to Remember the Twentieth Century -- Appendix. Interpreting the Interpreters.".
- catalog title "Father India : how encounters with an ancient culture transformed the modern west / Jeffery Paine.".
- catalog type "text".