India was headed down the road to disaster

 “The Indian elite made pretentious claimsabout idealism, socialism and spirituality that were, to Campbell, humbug. Theobsession with esoteric ritualism — or what Campbell considered esotericritualism — the hierarchy of caste, the grimy and dirty cities, and thepoverty: it was all too much for the author. In his exaggerated andfictionalised account — the book’s protagonist is an American visitor to India— Campbell is guilty of what post facto analysis would term politicalincorrectness and racial stereotyping”.