Ten consonances between Eliade’s thought and Orthodox theology are considered. Orthodox theologians Vladimir Lossky and Dumitru Stăniloae are inspected for similarities to Eliade. His early essays present Orthodoxy as a mystical religion in which, without some experience of the sacred, profane existence is seen as meaningless and he later identified this same basic schema in all religion. His biography and his understanding of religion are outlined and the possibly formative influence of Eastern Orthodoxy is considered, as are recent publications on the issue. By doing a re-reading of the novel, it has been found that despite the permeability of the colonial relationships suggested by Eliade’s adventure, cultural and racial divisions between East and West seem to be collapsing, paving the ways for hybrid colonial encounters Therefore, the objective of the study is to discover how Eliade’s construction of colonial discourse depicts his ambivalent self- articulation. Bhabha’s theory is congenial in bringing to light the stereotypical thinking of Eliade about colonial India. The present study upholds that the novel offers ambivalence-based stereotypical colonial- expressions and the interactions between Eliade and Devien vision such a third space of enunciation, which not only exposes the instability of colonial discourse from within but also underscores the hybridization of the contacting cultures simultaneously. Being inspired by the Western hegemonic discourse, the Romania novelist, Mircea Eliade’s Eurocentric line of thought renders the Others/Indians as uncivilized, primitives and exotic in Bengal Nights.
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