India and the Traveller
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India and the Traveller

Aspects of Travelling Identity

  1. 282 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

India and the Traveller

Aspects of Travelling Identity

About this book

India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India.
It examines India as a space, reflected on and interrogated by others, as also people associated intrinsically with this space, who move in and out of it.­ The essays focus on the self-fashioning of the traveller - Buddhist pilgrims of Asia, European visitors to the Mughal court, the British colonizer, the Indian anthropologist, historian or whimsical civil servant, the wanderer seeking spiritual insight in nature, and the woman traveller with her distinct perceptions and sensitivities. Engaging with issues related to identity, this book explores the need for cultural accommodation by African and European travellers, the discovery of affinity by Asian travellers, the instability of postcolonial selves and travel as a means of negotiating complex problems of fashioning personae in literary works.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. Section 1: Europe and India
  11. Section 2: Asian Travellers and India
  12. Section 3: Self-Fashioning of Indian Travellers
  13. Section 4: Travel and Fiction
  14. List of Editor and Contributors
  15. Index