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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nayar, Pramod K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, Indic--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, Indic.

Travel writing--History--19th century.

Travel writing.

Travel writing--History--20th century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Physical Description:

viii, 245 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Export edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Bloomsbury, 2020.

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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction : travel and self-fashioning in the age of empire

Colonial subjects and their dislocated aesthetics

The occidental exotic

Vernacular cosmopolitanism in the age of empire

The globalectic imagination and connected histories

Conclusion : the antinomies of travel in the age of empire

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online vresion: Nayar, Pramod K. Indian travel writing in the age of empire.

ISBN:

9389000939

9789389000931

OCLC:

1127929114

Publisher Number:

99986138141