Representation of Indian Religion in the Short Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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https://doi.org/10.53032/TCL.2021.6.3.05Keywords:
Religion, Culture, Hinduism, Foreigner, Knowledge, RepresentationAbstract
India, with its plethora of religions and cultures, has been an enigmatic place for foreigners. Hinduism, a way of life more than being a religion (as proclaimed by the Supreme Court of India), has often been misunderstood by outsiders. Sometimes a biased attitude is reflected in the literature produced by these foreigners. A person like Thomas Babington Macaulay, who himself admitted that he had no knowledge of Sanskrit or Arabic, had the foolish courage of saying that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. In this paper we shall analyze the representation of religion in the short stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
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