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Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque / Fanny Parkes ; edited with notes and an introduction by Indira Ghose and Sara Mills.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parlby, Fanny Parkes.
- Series:
- Exploring travel
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--Description and travel.
- India.
- India--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Parlby, Fanny Parkes.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- This edition of Fanny Parkes' account of her travels in India provides valuable insight into middle-class British women's views on Indian life. It includes descriptions of the Zenana and Indian domestic life--subjects that are often omitted from male-authored travel texts.
- Contents:
- Part 2 Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque 19
- 1 Life in India 31
- 2 Residence in Calcutta 37
- 5 Departure from the Presidency 56
- 6 Life in the Mufassil 65
- 7 Residence at Allahabad 69
- 8 Life in the Zenana 77
- 9 Residence at Prag 85
- 10 Sketches at Allahabad 92
- 11 Removal to Cawnpore
- Confessions of a Thug 100
- 12 Arrival at Cawnpore 108
- 13 Residence at Cawnpore
- The Dewali 118
- 14 Scenes in Oude 129
- 15 Revelations of Life in the Zenana 138
- 16 The Return to Allahabad
- Execution of Twenty-Five Thugs 147
- 17 Scenes at Allahabad
- Pilgrimage to the Triveni 159
- 18 Life in the Zenana 167
- 19 Adventures in the East 173
- 20 The Great Fair at Allahabad 181
- 21 The Nut Log 190
- 22 The Cholera 195
- 23 The Muharram 204
- 24 The Brahmanical Thread 210
- 25 Pilgrimage to the Taj 222
- 26 Pilgrimage to the Taj 233
- 27 The Taj Mahul 240
- 28 Pleasant Days in Agra 247
- 29 Revelations of Life in the Zenana 255
- 30 Life in the Zenana, and Chita Hunting 264
- 31 Fathipoor Sicri and Colonel Gardner 272
- 32 The Marriage 279
- 33 The Burat 291
- 34 The Chaotree 298
- 35 The Mahratta Queen 306
- 36 The Nawab Hakim Menhdi 312
- 37 A Voyage on the Ganges 319
- 38 The Mahratta Camp 324
- 39 The Mahrattas at Allahabad 331
- 40 A Tufan 340
- 41 The Famine 348
- 42 Pleasant Days in Camp 358
- 43 Ruins of Delhi 361
- 44 The Zenana at Delhi 367
- 45 Departure from Allahabad 373
- 46 Scenes on the Ganges 378
- 47 The Farewell 390
- Oriental proverbs and sayings 392.
- Notes:
- "[O]riginally published in 1850 in two volumes"--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-429) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719053501
- OCLC:
- 46353475
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