This paper discusses the fundamental Orientalistic, Eurocentric approach to Rabindranath Tagore by contemporary Italian Indologists. In their poor historical awareness of the situation prevailing in India, then a British Colony, they tried to interpret Tagore and his 'Indianness' in the light of (British) colonial ideologies.
Italian Indologists, Rabindranath Tagore and ‘Indianness’, 1913-1961 / Prayer, Mario. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 267-286.
Italian Indologists, Rabindranath Tagore and ‘Indianness’, 1913-1961
PRAYER, Mario
2014
Abstract
This paper discusses the fundamental Orientalistic, Eurocentric approach to Rabindranath Tagore by contemporary Italian Indologists. In their poor historical awareness of the situation prevailing in India, then a British Colony, they tried to interpret Tagore and his 'Indianness' in the light of (British) colonial ideologies.File allegati a questo prodotto
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