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FDU PRESS
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 | Indology, Indomania, and Orientalism
ISBN# 9780838642085
Reviewed by: Lewis Pyenson, Western Michigan University
American Historical Review, April 2011 |
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The western fringe of Europe, which overran the world in the relatively recent past, has persistently embraced enlightenment from the East. Much of this spiritual and intellectual passion focused on the Eastern Mediterranean. There were also some distant beacons, one of which blazed in South Asia. The obscure and vulgar reflection of this light sullied the twentieth century through the regime of Adolf Hitler. The swastika is, today, universally recognized as an emblem of evil. Douglas T. McGetchen examines the long prelude to Aryan suprematism by focusing on the nineteenth-century German infatuation with Sanskrit.
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