Father India

Author: Jeffery PainePublisher: PenguinYear: 1998Language: EnglishPages: 404ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140287582 DescriptionWhat do you think of Western civilization? Mahatma Gandhi was once asked. It would be a good idea, he replied. However the West might be perceived by India, there is another dimension to the relationship that India has had with the West. Documenting the fascination that India has always held for Western intellectuals and artists, Father India delineates how this society of ancient traditions left the West Unexpectedly affected. Jeffery Paine narrates the curious stories of a succession of twentieth-century European and American stalwarts, including Lord Curzon, Annie Besant, E.M.Forster, Carl Jung, Mirra Richard, V. S. Naipaul, Christopher Isherwood and Martin Luther King Jr., who acted out their most secret dreams in India, seeking from India a perspective on their own culture. In the process their unconscious assumptions about politics, religion