Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s4.6

c11.s4.6

During the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries, Orientalism was griping the West, particularly Germany. Raymond Schwab gave an encyclopaedic description of this sweeping impact from 1765 to 1850 in his *La Renaissance Orientale*: “there was a virtual epidemic of orientalia affecting every major poet, essayist and philosopher of the period”. Schwab’s notion that