Perceiving India
Insight and Inquiry
1st Edition
Published on 20. September 1993
Book
Hardback
285 pages
978-0-8039-9138-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores some of the images and philosophical concepts of India conveyed by scholars, travellers, poets and diplomats who have travelled through this land. The way in which these perceptions have influenced the self-image of Indians is considered. The volume is presented within a framework of self-analysis and a search for a more realistic understanding of what it means to be Indian.
More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
637 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-9138-5 (9780803991385)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Image India - Geeti Sen
Passage
PART ONE: ENCOUNTER
Ways of Perception - Gisela Bonn
Between Effusiveness and Rejection
Shelley and the India of the Imagination - Kathleen Raine
India - Catherine Clement
Of Crows and Democracy
Winds of Change - Mira Salganik
A Common Cultural Heritage - Eijiro Noda
A Photograher's Choice - Shalini Saran
Archetypal Images - Shalini Saran
PART TWO: INSIGHT
Reconsidering the Orientalist View - Vasudha Dalmia-Luderitz
Interview - Romila Thapar
Interpretations of Indian History
India and Europe - Nirmal Verma
The Self and the Other
Nehru's Understanding of the Social Function of Religion - Ainslee T Embree
The Challenge of Modernity - R Panikkar
PART THREE: INQUIRY
Interview - Eegie Schoo
An Inquiry into the Dynamics of Art
Farangi and Babu - G H R Tillotson
Two Early Theories of Indian Architecture
Images of Calcutta - Gaston Roberge
Mirages of Development
Street Culture - Achinto
Percipere aut Percipi - Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
Readings of Readings
Christopher Thomas
Passage
PART ONE: ENCOUNTER
Ways of Perception - Gisela Bonn
Between Effusiveness and Rejection
Shelley and the India of the Imagination - Kathleen Raine
India - Catherine Clement
Of Crows and Democracy
Winds of Change - Mira Salganik
A Common Cultural Heritage - Eijiro Noda
A Photograher's Choice - Shalini Saran
Archetypal Images - Shalini Saran
PART TWO: INSIGHT
Reconsidering the Orientalist View - Vasudha Dalmia-Luderitz
Interview - Romila Thapar
Interpretations of Indian History
India and Europe - Nirmal Verma
The Self and the Other
Nehru's Understanding of the Social Function of Religion - Ainslee T Embree
The Challenge of Modernity - R Panikkar
PART THREE: INQUIRY
Interview - Eegie Schoo
An Inquiry into the Dynamics of Art
Farangi and Babu - G H R Tillotson
Two Early Theories of Indian Architecture
Images of Calcutta - Gaston Roberge
Mirages of Development
Street Culture - Achinto
Percipere aut Percipi - Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
Readings of Readings
Christopher Thomas