Indian Travel Writing is a new five-volume collection co-published
by Routledge and Edition Synapse. Hitherto, the paucity of readily
available travel writing produced by imperial subjects themselves
has long been apparent, and this anthology addresses that lack. A
veritable treasure-trove, it brings together scarce documents which
are currently widely dispersed or very difficult for scholars,
researchers, and students across the globe to locate and use. The
collection confirms the deeply cosmopolitan sensibility possessed
by many Indian travellers, and their narratives provide insightful
contemporary critiques of the British Empire and of Euro-American
culture more generally. The gathered works often exhibit
considerable expertise in local cuisine, politics, and poetry, as
well as a keen interest in political theory, human rights, and
class conflict. Beyond Britain, continental Europe, and the USA,
the collection also includes writing by Indians who travelled to
Russia, China, the Far East, Australia, and Africa. Indian Travel
Writing draws on the narratives of a diverse range of writers,
including Indian princes, statesmen, lawyers, reformers, sportsmen,
artists and curators, politicians, and merchants. Each piece is
reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy
to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination.
The collection will be particularly welcomed by historians and
those working in colonial-discourse studies. It will also be of
interest to anthropologists and literary scholars. Each volume is
supplemented by a substantial introduction, newly written by the
editor, Pramod K. Nayar. The collection also includes a detailed
appendix providing data on the provenance of the gathered
materials. *********************** Pramod K. Nayar is also the
editor of the five-volume Women in Colonial India (2013)
(978-0-415-52555-8), another Routledge and Edition Synapse
co-publication.
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