Doświadczyć nowoczesności. Relacje Indusów z podróży po Europie 1858-1991
Experience Modernity. Indian Accounts of European Travel 1858–1991

Author(s): Weronika Rokicka
Subject(s): History, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: travel; travel literature; Indian literature; India; Europe
Summary/Abstract: The author analyses Indian travel writing in Bengali language, concentrating on the descriptions of travels around Europe in colonial times and immediately after. The relations from these journeys are a fascinating record of experiencing a world known from British school textbooks and European books popularized in India as a result of colonial subordination. They also show a difficult confrontation of ideas with reality and prove how overwhelmingly colonialism influenced shaping the image of Europe and the reception of European ideas among Indians.

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