Woodroofe was criticized for being too close to the Indians, thus the other British called them "his Brahmin pals".
You know ... those swarthy brown skin types the Brit upper-class loved to mock. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda <no_reply@...> wrote: > > here she is:(Beatrice Kathleen)Patricia Taylor > "Arthur Avalon: The Creation of a Legendary Orientalist," in Myth and > Mythmaking," ed. Julia Leslie [Richmond, Eng.: Curzon Press, 1996], pp. > 151-61); see also her paper "Arthur Avalon among the Orientalists: Sir > John Woodroffe and Tantra" ( Oxford University); and her book, "Sir > John Woodroffe, Tantra, and Bengal: An Indian Soul in a European > Body"(Richmond, Eng.: Curzon Press, 2oo1). > http://books.google.com/books?id=tcykYqIfNqsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Tay\ \ > lor+The+Creation+Of+A+Legendary+Orientalist:+Sir+John+Woodroffe+As+%27Ar\ \ > thur+Avalon%27+In&hl=de&ei=NfdoTqHbPIK0iQfE_ogn&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=r\ \ > esult&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=mantra&f=false > http://tinyurl.com/3n2yv2d > She persuasively invites us to harbour no illusions about > Woodroffe/Avalon, the name influenced merely by his favourite painting: > Burne-Jones's "Arthur's sleep in Avalon "(based on Tennyson), > > but nevertheless to respect him for what he achieved. > Interesting and recommended read: > In human terms, one thing that one misses in Taylor's account (not > through any failing on her part, but through lack of surviving evidence) > is a detailed impression of the warm and close friendships he > undoubtedly had with Indians. In their heyday, he and his > concert-pianist wife Ellen hosted one of Calcutta's most glittering > salons. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: > SNIP > > > > As for Woodroofe, I have the doctoral thesis that was published about > 10 > > years ago where the author claims he may not have written most of > those > > books and that the were written by his Indian friend would not have > been > > published under his own name. > snip >
