ABSTRACT
A Passage to India and British anthropology have been concerned with much the same world: one in which (said Forster) ‘Indians in England were exotics…. The movement was all the other way-from West to East.’ Quite dramatically, as with Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta free-falling out of the sky upon England,2 this has changed. We like to say that ‘anthropology has come home’, meaning that we now study ourselves, and mark that as a change in anthropology. And so it is. But, surely, it is dwarfed by the change from Forster to Rushdie?
