Hermann Hesse's love for India was not a trend, but a theme that shaped his life from childhood. His ancestors were missionaries there, and his mother was born in India. During a three-month journey through Asia in 1911, he personally experienced the Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist worlds, which he would later explore in travel reports, essays, and book reviews. Our volume gathers, in addition to the Indian legend Siddhartha, his stories featuring Indian motifs. Starting with the legend of the Indian king, the travel stories The Bride and Indian Butterflies, as well as Robert Aghion, his critique of missionary colonialism, it extends to The Indian Life Course and the early parody Anton Schievelbein's Unintentional Journey to East India in the baroque German of Abraham a Santa Clara. The warnings about the dangerous.