01659cam a22002418i 4500 11179 IN-BhIIT 20250328123336.0 210608s2021 ne ob 001 0 eng 9789360808198 (hbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 820.93254 BAN/I Banerjee, Rita Author. 25926 India in early modern English travel writings : protestantism, enlightenment, and toleration / by Rita Banerjee. New Delhi : Manohar, 2025. 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Comparing the variant ideologies of the representations of India in seventeenth-century European travelogues, India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives concerns a relatively neglected area of study and often overlooked writers. Relating the narratives to contemporary ideas and beliefs, Rita Banerjee argues that travelwriters, many of them avid Protestants, seek to negativize India by constructing her in opposition to Europe, the supposed norm, by deliberately erasing affinities and indulging in the politics of disavowal. However, some travelogues show a neutral stance by dispassionate ethnographic reporting, indicating a growing empirical trend. Yet others, influenced by the Enlightenment ideas of diversity, demonstrate tolerance of alien practices and, occasionally, acceptance of the superior rationality of the other's customs"-- English prose literature History and criticism. 25927 Travelers' writings, English India History and criticism. 25928 TRB 14664 14664 0 0 ddc 0 0 SHSSM CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2025-02-14 31 1271.25 0 820.93254 BAN/I 11179 2025-02-14 00:00:00 1695.00 2025-02-14 TRB