India and the traveller : aspects of travelling identity /: aspects of travelling identity. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rita Banerjee.
• Authors: Banerjee, Rita
• Contents: Introduction Section 1: Europe and India1. Outsiders and Insiders: European Perceptions of India and the Problem of Cultural Distance - Joan-Pau Rubies2. Durbar Personas: Thomas Roe and Thomas Coryate at the Mughal Court - Christoph Heyl and Christian Feser3. Discovering the Other: Northeast India in Early 19th-Century British Travel Writing - Nandana Dutta4. Witnessing and Recording Sociocultural Realities in the Indian Subcontinent: William Dalrymple's The Age of Kali - Ajie GeorgeSection 2: Asian Travellers and India5. Chinese Pilgrims and Arab Traders in Medieval India - Rita Banerjee6. In Search of the Buddha in India: Travelogues of Fuji Nichidatsu, a Buddhist Monk from Japan - Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya7. India in the Eyes of Japanese Travellers: Kimura Nichiki in Bengal - Sumit Kumar BaruaSection 3: Self-Fashioning of Indian Travellers8. The Bhadralok and His 'Wild West': Reading Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay's Palamou - Saugata Bhaduri9. Pilgrimage Briefs: Negotiating Faith, Aesthetics and Environment - Jayati Gupta10. Bangamahilar Japanyatra (1915): The Earliest Record of an Asian Woman's Travel to Japan - Nandita BasuSection 4: Travel and Fiction11. India Imagined and Imaged: 'Travel to India' in Modern Japanese Fiction and Non-fiction - M.V. Lakshmi12. A Tale of Two Travels: Reading Historiography through Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land - Jaya Yadav13. Narratives of Travelling Memory - Nishat Haider.
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Bloomsbury India
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 915.4; Travelers -- India -- Identification; National characteristics, East Indian; Identity (Philosophical concept); India -- Description and travel
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789354355158
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