Where East Meets West: Shaw’s Fascination with India

Revisiting Shaw: George Bernard Shaw Looks at India may well be treated as a primer to Shaw studies, focusing on his deep and layered engagement with Indian religion, philosophy, politics, and culture. Drawing upon Shaw’s own collection of and fascination with books related to India—and, more broadly, to the Orient—this book sets out to act as a pointer to the fascinating cross-cultural territory where Shaw and Tagore meet, a space marked by the union of Oriental and Occidental civilizations.

It attempts to trace the probable Indian backdrop to Shaw’s ever-evolving concept of Creative Evolution, offering insights into how Eastern thought might have subtly influenced his groundbreaking ideas. Beyond the well-established non-British parallels like Bergson and Schopenhauer, this study seeks to introduce energized Indian parallels into the discourse, opening up new ways to understand Shaw’s philosophical journey.

The author’s hope is to redefine the crossroads of Shaw studies, Indology, and Oriental vision, encouraging readers and scholars alike to view this intersection through a new, more luminous lens—a perspective that the future, with its broader horizon, may fully recognize and embrace.

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