Stella Kramrisch and Ananda Coomaraswamy:

In 1921, four years after Ananda Coomaraswamy settled in Boston, Stella Kramrisch arrived in India. The diminutive, slim, shy, 25-year-old woman from Vienna—with a German accent and a soft voice—must have been quite awkward and uneasy on her arrival in India. Moreover, she was transplanted not to a...

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1. Verfasser: Pal, Pratapaditya 1935- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Zusammenfassung:In 1921, four years after Ananda Coomaraswamy settled in Boston, Stella Kramrisch arrived in India. The diminutive, slim, shy, 25-year-old woman from Vienna—with a German accent and a soft voice—must have been quite awkward and uneasy on her arrival in India. Moreover, she was transplanted not to a metropolitan and cosmopolitan city like Bombay or Calcutta with urbane and sophisticated society and atmosphere, but to Santi Niketan in rural Bengal. The only person she knew was the poet whom she had briefly met in England and who was a larger-than-life celebrity.
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