“Passagem para a Índia”: fotografias que acenam e circulam indianidades no Brasil.

Abstract

Relations between Brazil and India have been known for centuries to mention the trade routes in colonial times. This paper seeks to analyze images through photographs of India in tourism advertisements and travel reports in Brazil. These images remind and repeat the colonial discourse, in which the fixity of stereotypes markets the country as a place suspended in timelessness, filled with exoticism and spirituality. Appropriate by the tourist industry and disseminated in the discursive practices of everyday life, essentializations reverberate about the other eastern, and at the same time, the spread of indian anti-colonial movement. Keywords: india; touristic advertisements; indianness, travel reports.