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Over the past hundred years, India has held an enormous fascination for western intellectuals and artists. Father Indiaexplores the life-changing influence of the subcontinent on western ideas and modernity by narrating the curious, spellbinding stories of a succession of twentieth-century Europeans and Americans--including Annie Besant, E. M. Forster, Carl Jung, William Butler Yeats, V.S. Naipaul, Christopher Isherwood, and Martin Luther King Jr.--who 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. Father India tells the story of those people who attempted to comprehend or even to perfect western civilization through India, and of how their successes and failures retunred to the modern West a changed understanding of itself. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Frustrating because covering eight individuals in some depth and many others in less depth in a book of just over 300 pages leads to a great deal of once-over-lightly. I was left wanting to know more, much more, about some of the figures, in particular Annie Besant, who went from militant atheist to apostle of Theososphy, and was even elected President of the Indian National Congress.
On the other hand, Jeffery Paine writes well and his material is fascinating. A book that leaves the reader wanting to know more is no bad thing, so I do recommend Father India for those wanting an introduction to complex interactions between colonial and post-colonial India and the West. ( )