Indian Elements in the Works of W.B Yeats, T.S. Eliot

Khan Sarwar Murshid's Indian Elements in the Works of W.B Yeats, T.S. Eliot explores timeless questions of morality, the nature of reality, and the human search for meaning. The book examines how these universal concerns are reflected in the works of major Western writers. After the disillusionment of the great wars, many Western intellectuals turned eastward for philosophical and moral grounding. The book shows how concepts from Vedanta, such as the idea of a supreme principle (Brahman) and the cyclical nature of existence, along with Buddhist ideas of right action and detachment, offered a new framework for these thinkers. Yeats, Eliot, and Huxley each found something valuable in Indian philosophy, and their engagement with it was shaped by their personal Christian backgrounds and their views on society. The book argues that this intellectual exchange was a kind of ironic revenge of the colonized East, which, by offering new frontiers of thought, profoundly influenced the Western mind.