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Translating India to India: Travelling Translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the Visual Language of Spiritual Consumerism

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Raksha Pande, Professor Alastair BonnettORCiD

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Abstract

This paper addresses the geography of translation by exploring the re-scripting of Indian spirituality into and through consumerism and, more specifically, the interplay between ‘Indian’, ‘modern’ and ‘Western’ in the language deployed by Patanjali. Thus, we trace a politically, culturally and religiously charged instance of both ‘travelling translation’ and ‘self-translation’; that is, the use of language that has journeyed, gone back and forth, validating notions of Indian uniqueness in the context of globalisation and the rise of Hindu nationalism.


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Author(s): Pande R, Bonnett A

Publication type: Article

Publication status: In Press

Journal: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Year: 2024

Acceptance date: 26/09/2024

ISSN (print): 0020-2754

ISSN (electronic): 1475-5661

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.


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