AN AMERICAN GIRL IN INDIA LETTERS AND RECOLLECTIONS, 1963–64 by Wendy Doniger

Author:Wendy Doniger [Doniger, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-03T00:00:00+00:00

Part Four

CALCUTTA

Reading, in this section, the stupid, vapid, highfalutin' philosophical posturings and biased political generalizations of my younger self, representing as the opinions of all Indians the views of a few hotheaded Bengalis and Punjabis—particularly their virulent hatred of Nehru, which I did not share— in passages that were really not central to my own intellectual agendas and that now make me wince, I was tempted to cut them all out. Even while I was in India, I began to suspect (as in the letter of November 24, 1963) that it was just some of my crazy friends, and not all Indians, who hated Nehru. (It is also not clear to me even now how I processed Chanchal's deeply skewed bias against Muslims.) But then I thought, well, those passages do provide an occasion to think about the infantile beginnings of a serious scholar. And so I kept them in.

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