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India and the traveller: aspects of travelling identity

India and the traveller: aspects of travelling identity
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ISBN 9354355919 (hardcover)
9789354355912 (hardcover)
Title India and the traveller : aspects of travelling identity / edited by Rita Banerjee
Publisher New Delhi : Bloomsbury, 2022
Physical desc. xi, 278 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note CB illustrations: p. 34, fig. 1.1 (In 03.263).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Section 1: Europe and India. Outsiders and insiders: European perceptions of India and the problem of cultural distance / Joan-Pau Rubies -- Durbar personas: Thomas Roe and Thomas Coryate at the Mughal court / Christoph Heyl and Christian Feser -- Discovering the other: Northeast India in early 19th-century British travel writing / Nandana Dutta -- Witnessing and recording sociocultural realities in the Indian Subcontinent: William Dalrymple's The age of Kali / Ajie George -- Section 2: Asian Travellers and India. Chinese pilgrims and Arab traders in medieval India / Rita Banerjee -- In search of the Buddha in India: travelogues of Fuji Nichidatsu, a Buddhist monk from Japan / Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya -- India in the eyes of Japanese travellers: Kimura Nichiki in Bengal / Sumit Kumar Barua -- Section 3: Self-fashioning of Indian travellers. Bhadralok and his 'Wild West': reading Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay's Palamou / Saugata Bhaduri -- Pilgrimage briefs: negotiating faith, aesthetics and environment / Jayati Gupta -- Bangamahilar Japanyatra (1915): the earliest record of an Asian woman's travel to Japan / Nandita Basu -- Section 4: Travel and fiction. India imagined and imaged: 'Travel to India' in modern Japanese fiction and non-fiction / M.V. Lakshmi -- A tale of two travels: reading historiography through Amitav Ghosh's In an antique land / Jaya Yadav -- Narratives of travelling memory / Nishat Haider
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 03
Travelers' writings -- India -- History and criticism
Travelers -- India -- History
India -- In literature
India -- Description and travel -- History
Mogul Empire -- History
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