In this article we propose an imagology of the oriental people in the creation of Mircea Eliade. The Oriental takes on the dimensions of a stranger, of alien, of another. The alien is the object of study of imagology, a new discipline that has recently appeared in the humanities. Mircea Eliade's work is relevant in the sense of discovering this character with both positive and negative imagotypes. The other is represented by all the nations, met by the author in his great journey. Foreigner is the indian with all his community variations: bhutanese, sikhs, bengalis, sinhalese, sandals. The romanian author notes about communities of people from India, especially in Calcutta: indigenous indians (traditionalists) and the eurasian community (bovaric, obedient).