For the West, the East has often been synonymous with the exotic, the barbaric, and the irrational signifying a people without history and without an evolving identity. The other is also all the things that the West does not stand for or is not familiar with. This attitude, famously defined as Orientalism by Edward Said has shaped Western writings on India. However, the way the writers in the East have historically viewed the West has not been given the attention it deserves. The book Shifting Images examines the ambivalence and the anxieties on the part of the Indian writers who sought to...
For the West, the East has often been synonymous with the exotic, the barbaric, and the irrational signifying a people without history and without an ...
