Travel writing and the Empire
By: essays by Tharakeshwar, Mohammed Zaheer Basha ... [et al.] ; edited by Sachidananda Mohanty.
Contributors: Mohanty, Sachidananda.
Publisher: Katha
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Travelers' writings, English -- India -- History and criticism.; Travel writing -- History.; British -- India -- History.; India -- Description and travel.
Description: Contributed articles on the facets of writings of various English people who were in India during the British rule on their experiences of Indian life. And also on how the Indian/Kannada writers who came to Europe looked at the "White" people here.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Empire, travel writing, and British studies / Susan Bassnett; title: Hajji Baba : ideological basis of the Persian picaro / Pallavi Pandit Laisram; title: Porous boundaries and cultural crossover : Fanny Parkes and "going native" / William Dalrymple; title: Colonialism, surveillance, amd memoirs of travel : Tegart's diaries and the Andaman Cellular Jail / Tutun Mukherjee; title: Propaganda as travelogue : a study of Katherine Mayo's mother India; title: Mohammed Zaheer Basha; title: Consitutive contradictions : travel writing and construction of native women in colonial India / Sindhu Menon; title: Touring aesthetics : the colonial rhetoric of travel brochures today / Pramod K. Nayar; title: Empire writes back? Kannada travel fiction and nationalistic discourse / V.B. Tharakeshwar; title: Hyderabad through foreign eyes / Narendra Luther.