Story of the Clashing Images of the Country. The Case of India’s Image at Home and in Poland

• Authors: Piotr Kłodkowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the complex process of creating a country image, both at home and abroad. It consists of two parts, being interrelated with each other, however not in a direct way. In part one the focus is laid on the image of India created by Indians themselves, which is partly a result of the grand economic transformation initiated in the beginning of the 1990s, and partly a heritage of much older cultural and political tradition. In part two the case of India’s changing image in Poland is analyzed, viz. the case of a country, which unlike other European states, never ventured to establish its own political presence overseas, but nevertheless it was able to build a complex structure of various images of the civilization it hardly had any direct political contact with.

Keywords

EN

India; Poland; history; country images

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 178
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 303-324

Dates

published

2012-07-09

Contributors

author

Piotr Kłodkowski

• University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów,