01817cam a22002538i 450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003202000250007304000130009804100080011108200210011910000350014024501190017526000330029430000290032750400510035652008540040765000600126165000710132194200080139299900170140095201460141711179IN-BhIIT20250328123336.0210608s2021    ne      ob    001 0 eng    a9789360808198 (hbk.)  aIN-BhIIT  aeng00a820.93254bBAN/I1 aBanerjee, RitaeAuthor.92592610aIndia in early modern English travel writings :bprotestantism, enlightenment, and toleration /cby Rita Banerjee.  aNew Delhi :bManohar,c2025.  a275 p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"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"-- 0aEnglish prose literaturexHistory and criticism.925927 0aTravelers' writings, EnglishzIndiaxHistory and criticism.925928  cTRB  c14664d14664  00102ddc40708SHSSMaCLIITBBSbCLIITBBSd2025-02-14e31g1271.25l0o820.93254 BAN/Ip11179r2025-02-14 00:00:00v1695.00w2025-02-14yTRB