Decolonial travel : vernacular mobilities in India / edited by Avishek Ray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Avishek, 1985- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel--Social aspects--India--History.

Travel.

Cults--India--History.

Cults.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India--History.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Decolonization--India.

Decolonization.

Travel--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Contents:

Decolonizing travel(ing theory), or the discursive limits of the '(post)colonial' / Avishek Ray

The pre-colonial and the scriptural

To go is to know (that you never went): A Sanskrit Buddhist map of selected illusions / Mattia Salvini Dharmavardhana Jñānagarbha

Vedic Travel: The Agnihotra and beyond / Lauren M. Bausch

The state, polity and the religious

Travel(-ing) to write: Authorship and agency in an era of inter-polity mobility / Rafia Khan

The power of itinerancy: Religious leaders in the Nepal-India borderland / Martin Gaenszle

Language and the literary

"Floating straight obedient to the stream": Bibliomigrancy and riverine journeys in colonial Bengal / Swati Chattopadhyay

Moving in circles: 'Chakkars' in Rajasthani women's songs / Nilanjana Mukherjee & Gaurav Kumar

The trope of homelessness

Homeless in Gujarat and India: On the curious love of lndulal Yagnik / Ajay Skaria

The homeless Gandhi / Vinay Lal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Print version: Decolonial travel

ISBN:

9781003544524

1003544525

Publisher Number:

90102152552

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