An Early Nineteenth Century Vade Mecum for India

Sutapa Dutta, Gargi College, University of Delhi, India Abstract A Guide-Book for an Empire is bound to be of epic dimensions, more so if it is on India. In its length and largeness, in its depth and diversity, in its grand ambition and ambivalence, such works would...

Indian Religions in the Roman Catholics’ Gaze: 1920-1965

Enrico Beltramini, Notre Dame de Namur University in California, USA Abstract How contemporary European Roman Catholicism elaborated a representation of Indian religions as spiritual and mystical, or pre-modern, is the theme of this article. After a brief summary of...

India as Object of Mircea Eliade’s Gaze

Sonia Elvireanu, Centre for the Research of the Imaginary, Alba Iulia, Romania Abstract Exotism is one of the blue prints of European literature in the 20th century, says Jean-Marc Moura in La littérature des lointains. Histoire de l’exotisme européen au XXe...