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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rita Banerjee (CSSSC, Kolkata)Publisher: Bloomsbury India Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic India ISBN: 9789354356995ISBN 10: 9354356990 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 30 September 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Section 1: Europe and India 1. Outsiders and Insiders: European Perceptions of India and the Problem of Cultural Distance - Joan-Pau Rubies 2. Durbar Personas: Thomas Roe and Thomas Coryate at the Mughal Court - Christoph Heyl and Christian Feser 3. Discovering the Other: Northeast India in Early 19th-Century British Travel Writing - Nandana Dutta 4. Witnessing and Recording Sociocultural Realities in the Indian Subcontinent: William Dalrymple’s The Age of Kali - Ajie George Section 2: Asian Travellers and India 5. Chinese Pilgrims and Arab Traders in Medieval India - Rita Banerjee 6. In Search of the Buddha in India: Travelogues of Fuji Nichidatsu, a Buddhist Monk from Japan - Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya 7. India in the Eyes of Japanese Travellers: Kimura Nichiki in Bengal - Sumit Kumar Barua Section 3: Self-Fashioning of Indian Travellers 8. The Bhadralok and His ‘Wild West’: Reading Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay’s Palamou - Saugata Bhaduri 9. Pilgrimage Briefs: Negotiating Faith, Aesthetics and Environment - Jayati Gupta 10. Bangamahilar Japanyatra (1915): The Earliest Record of an Asian Woman’s Travel to Japan - Nandita Basu Section 4: Travel and Fiction 11. India Imagined and Imaged: ‘Travel to India’ in Modern Japanese Fiction and Non-fiction - M.V. Lakshmi 12. A Tale of Two Travels: Reading Historiography through Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land - Jaya Yadav 13. Narratives of Travelling Memory - Nishat HaiderReviewsAuthor InformationRita Banerjee is a research scholar affiliated to the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India. She was formerly Associate Professor of English Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She specialized in early modern British drama and has published articles, book chapters, and a monograph in early modern literature and related areas. Her current research interests include travel narratives, early modern literature, historiography, nineteenth- and twentieth -century Bengali literature and culture, women’s writings, and Rabindranath Tagore. She has recently published India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives: Protestantism, Enlightenment, and Toleration (Leiden: Brill, 2021) and an edited collection, Cultural Histories of India: Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography (London: Routledge, 2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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