Travels to Europe: Self and Other in Bengali Travel Narratives, 1870-1910
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8125027386
Length
viii+228p., Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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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 ...
