This work examines in detail the world of travelogues of a highly interesting culture-universe: the Bengali bhadralok. A travelogue is usually a crucial political/aesthetic text. Its very fabric is structured in space and power – it creates, relates, compares and contrasts spaces and power. Bengalis traveling to Europe in the colonial period felt compelled to produce such texts. An analysis of these works from a historian’s angle provides crucial windows to ...
