Cosmopolitan India by Rosa Maria Perez

“…Its main focus is the growing Bollywood cinema in Hindi and the role that it plays in the international consumption of the Indian culture.…”
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Images of India in the Lithuanian press of Catholic missions, 1927–1940 by Laurynas Kudijanovas

“… The article presents the perception of Indian culture and everyday life, formed by the interwar Lithuanian press of the Catholic missions, which received little attention in historiography. …”
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Chandigarh la Main ouverte : d’un urbanisme de plan à un urbanisme de vie by Enrico Chapel, Thierry Mandoul

“…Further, residents’ active engagement sheds new light on the modernity of Chandigarh, allowing to bring nuances to studies that characterize this urban planning project as based on principles exogenous to Indian culture.…”
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Regard sur les statuettes hindoues et bouddhiques en bronze d’Indonésie. Leur rôle pour la connaissance de la civilisation javanaise ancienne et ses liens avec l’Asie du Sud et du... by Mathilde Mechling

“…Thus, specialists initially thought that Indian culture had been transplanted to Indonesia, suggesting the passivity and the absence of modifications or innovations on the part of the receiving culture.…”
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Pukka English and the Language of the Other in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India by Catherine Lanone

“…Ironically subverting the use of signifiers like « pukka », Forster seeks to open up the text to the very otherness of Indian culture, moving beyond the annihilating echo of the caves to enhance what McBratney sees as the voice of the subaltern in the text, through the orality of songs. …”
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From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Mark Niemeyer

“…Bringing together these two quite different worlds, however, resulted in various ambiguities: it simultaneously reinforced the suggestion that Indians were already part of the past (providing a certain complicity with the continuing destruction of Indian culture) and questioned the then dominant image of Ancient Greece and Rome as examples of some of the highest levels attainable of government and human civilization.…”
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The Sacred and the Sensual by Swetha Vijayakumar

“…Khajuraho thrives on the dichotomy of being damned as pornography and the transgression of Indian culture on one hand, and on the other being endorsed to international tourists and Indian urban elites as an epitome of Indian liberalness – as the quintessential Kamasutra Temple. …”
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Embodied performances of (post-)indenture: Creolization of Indian dance, music and nadrons in Guadeloupe by Sandrine Soukaï

“…Combining an analysis of literary texts on the one hand, and cultural activists’ projects and experiences on the other, I tease out the paradoxes at the heart of Indian song and dance performances, demonstrating how they oscillate between a return to an ancestral Hindu India, a recognition of the creolization at work in French Caribbean Indianness and, more recently, an opening to the global Indian culture popularized by Bollywood.…”
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FROM OPTIMISM TO DISAPPOINTMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE WEST by E. V. Volgina

“…Vivekananda spent years in America and Europe, establishing contacts and promoting Indian culture. He used it as a “soft power” to draw attention of the West to the national liberation struggle just starting to unfold in India. …”
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MATERIAL BASIS OF ETHICAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS DESIRE IN ANCIENT EASTERN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS by S. V. Alushkin

“…Studies of the ethical attitude towards desire in Eastern culture have shown the consensus in desire suppression of individuals and similarities between Ancient Chinese and Indian cultures. There is shown significance and material basis of the transcendental law suppressing the desires even of the higher classes of the oriental society. …”
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