T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions: A Study in Poetry and BeliefT. S. Eliot's allusions to Indic philosophy in several poems from the Sanskrit ending of The Waste Land to the 'What Krishna meant' section of Four Quartets have puzzled and intrigued readers since the poems first appeared. In T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions, Professor Cleo McNelly Kearns places Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion in the context of his concomitant studies in Western philosophy and his views on literary theory