Wendy Doniger 
An American Girl in India [EPUB ebook] 
Letters and Recollections, 1963–64

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Offers a portrait of India as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed, and witty young scholar in the early 1960s.

Twenty-two-year-old Wendy Doniger arrived in Calcutta in August 1963 on a scholarship to study Sanskrit and Bengali. It was her first visit to the country. Over the coming year-a lot of it spent in Tagore’s Shantiniketan-she would fall completely in love with the place she had, until then, known only through books.

The India she describes in her letters back home to her parents is young, like her, still finding its feet and learning to come to terms with the violence of Partition. But it is also a mature civilization that allows Vishnu to be depicted on the walls in a temple to Shiva; a culture of contradictions where extreme eroticism is tied to extreme chastity; and a land of the absurd where sociable station masters don’t let train schedules stand in the way of hospitality. The country comes alive though her vivid prose-introspective and yet playful-and her excitement is on full display whether she is telling of the paradoxes of Indian life, the picturesque countryside, the peculiarities of Indian languages, or simply the mechanics of a temple ritual that she doesn’t understand.

Those who have read and admired Wendy Doniger will be delighted to find much of her later work anticipated in these letters, and the few who haven’t will get to see, through her keen eyes and able pen, India as they have never seen it before.

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Table des matières

Preface

1. Prelude in England

2. Arrival and First Days in India

3. Shantiniketan

4. Calcutta

5. Travels in India

6. Return to Calcutta and Shantiniketan

7. The Congress of Orientalists, and Ali Akbar Khan

Postscript
Bibliography of Works by Wendy Doniger

A propos de l’auteur

Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, including The Hindus: An Alternative History.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781438494180 ● Taille du fichier 2.0 MB ● Maison d’édition State University of New York Press ● Lieu Albany ● Pays US ● Publié 2023 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 8816990 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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