Indian travel writing in the age of empire, 1830-1940 / by.Pramod K. Nayar.

By:

Nayar. K, Pramod

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi Bloomsbury, 2019Description: 245p. 22 cmContent type:

text

ISBN:

9789389000924 (hbk)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

910.4092391411 NAY

Contents:

1. Introduction: Travel and Self-fashioning in the Age of Empire 2. Colonial Subjects and Their Dislocated Aesthetics 3. The Occidental Exotic 4. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire 5. The Globalectic Imagination and Connected Histories 6. Conclusion: The Antinomies of Travel in the Age of Empire

Summary: Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers. It identifies the key modes through which the Indian traveller engaged with Europe and the world-from aesthetic evaluations to cosmopolitan nationalist perceptions, from exoticism to a keen sense of connected and global histories. These modes are constitutive of the identity of the traveller. The book demonstrates how the Indian traveller defied the prescriptive category of the 'imperial subject' and fashions himself through this multilayered engagement with England, Europe and the world in different identities.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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1. Introduction: Travel and Self-fashioning in the Age of Empire
2. Colonial Subjects and Their Dislocated Aesthetics
3. The Occidental Exotic
4. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire
5. The Globalectic Imagination and Connected Histories
6. Conclusion: The Antinomies of Travel in the Age of Empire

Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers. It identifies the key modes through which the Indian traveller engaged with Europe and the world-from aesthetic evaluations to cosmopolitan nationalist perceptions, from exoticism to a keen sense of connected and global histories. These modes are constitutive of the identity of the traveller.

The book demonstrates how the Indian traveller defied the prescriptive category of the 'imperial subject' and fashions himself through this multilayered engagement with England, Europe and the world in different identities.

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