protestantism, enlightenment, and toleration Banerjee, Rita creator Author. text bibliography ne New Delhi Manohar 2025 2021 monographic eng 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. "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"-- by Rita Banerjee. Includes bibliographical references and index. English prose literature History and criticism Travelers' writings, English India History and criticism 820.93254 BAN/I 9789360808198 (hbk.) IN-BhIIT 210608 20250328123336.0 11179