These "Orientalists" were the British who tried to understand India culture, and they unconsciously became agents of inter-religious contact. 这些“东方文化研究者们”是想理解印度文化的英国人,而他们不知不觉中成了各宗教间接触的媒介。
In the orientalists 'eyes, the east represents irrational, brutal and mysterious whereas the west is civilized, advanced and rational. 在东方主义者眼中,东方代表了怪异、落后与神秘,与之形成鲜明对比的则是西方的文明、先进和理性。