{"id":340,"date":"2011-10-09T13:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T17:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=340"},"modified":"2011-10-09T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T17:06:29","slug":"vol-2-no-2-may-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/vol-2-no-2-may-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"Vol. 2, No. 2, May 1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Horace I. Poleman on India and America&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poleman was the head of the Southern Asian Section of the Library of Congress and a former student of W. Norman Brown at the University of Pennsylvania and a &#8220;driving force in the establishment of South Asian studies in the United States&#8221; (Gould 372)<\/li>\n<li>Describes his impressions after traveling to India in 1939<\/li>\n<li>Emphasizes the historical legacy of Indian civilization<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;most Americans thought of India still as a land of grotesque mysticism, snake-charmers, the rope trick, horrible practices in the name of religion, and a funny little man in a loin cloth&#8230;.I found a land of grim realism, enterprise, accomplishment, and purpose.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Writes that the most important step to take in the future is furthering Indian education in America<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In the world of the future we shall need to know much more about each other if we are to have intelligent and peaceful relations.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Horace I. Poleman on India and America&#8221; Poleman was the head of the Southern Asian Section of the Library of Congress and a former student of W. Norman Brown at the University of Pennsylvania and a &#8220;driving force in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/vol-2-no-2-may-1941\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41113,39567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-today","category-primary-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}