The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c15.s1.47

c15.s1.47

I would argue, then, that the episode of European expansion did not evoke a consistent and directly related reaction—except for the reception of yet another classical medium, the English language, in India’s impressive range of literary idioms. Should we then resign ourselves to the mockingly hollow echoes of Forster’s Malabar Caves? Although they might seem a fitting epitaph to the era of expansion, what actually happened proves otherwise.