Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire

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Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire is written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9389812402 (ISBN 10) and 9789389812404 (ISBN 13).

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.