An AltaMira Press Book Scholars, travelers, poets, and philosophers have perceived India in a variety of ways--serene and savage, innocent and cunning, submissive and violent. In Perceiving India you′ll discover the effect India had Percy Bysshe Shelley′s writing, reconsider Edward Said′s orientalism view, and behold photo essays of Indian street culture in an effort to better understand what it means to be Indian.