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Book SynopsisTraveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914â1948. Most of the travel writers surveyed understood this era to be a unique time in world historyâin India and elsewhere on the globe.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 India's Lure: Traveler Motivations and Aspirations Chapter 4 Katherine Mayo and the Great 'Mother India' Debate Chapter 5 The British Colonialist Debate: 'A Pigmentary Aristocracy?' Chapter 6 The Independence Debate: Wrestling with the 'Peter-Pan Theory' Chapter 7 The Ghandi Debate: Indian 'Fakir' or Heroic Independence Leader? Chapter 8 'An Observation of No Value': India's Poverty, Disease, and Suffering Chapter 9 The Search for the Elusive Indian Chapter 10 The Search for the Elusive Spirituality Chapter 11 The Paradox of Caste: East and West Chapter 12 From Bazaar to the Bizarre: India as Terra Exotica Chapter 13 Benares: Journey to the Soul of India Chapter 14 Calcutta, Delhi, and Bombay: Urban Itineraries Chapter 15 Princely States and Pauper Villages Part 16 Bibliography Part 17 Index
