Volume 12, Number 3, 2020

Themed Issue on “India and Travel Narratives”

Guest-edited by
Ms. Somdatta Mandal, PhD

Editorial Introduction
Somdatta Mandal
India and Travel Narratives
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I: General Overviews
Simonti Sen
Emergence of Secular Travel in Bengali Cultural Universe: Some Passing Thoughts
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Shrutakirti Dutta
Generic Shifts in Women’s Travel Writing between Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bengal
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Jullie Rani
Travelling another Country: An Exploration into Travel Writings by Bhojpuri Speakers of India
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II: Pilgrimages
M. G. Prasuna
First Travel Narrative in Telugu: A Study of Yenugula Veeraswamaiyya’s Kasi Yatra Charitra
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Niveditha Kalarikkal
Beyond the Boundaries of Kochi: a Study of Raja Veera Keralavarma’s Travel Narrative to Kashi
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Nilanjana Sikdar Datta
Bengali Hindu pilgrims and travellers to the Himalayas from the late 19th to the late 20th century
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Smitasri Joy Sarma
No Man’s Land: Reading Travel Accounts In Pilgrimage Sites in Shanku Maharaj’s Bigalito Karuna Jahnabi Jamuna
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Shafana Shaffi
Travel and Writing in the Period of ‘High Imperialism’: Hajj Pilgrimage Narratives by the Begums of Bhopal
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Taranjeet Kaur Chawla et al
Visa-Free Travel to Sri Kartarpur Sahib: Historic Pilgrimage and Religious Tourism from Indian Punjab to Pakistan Punjab
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Neeti Singh
Akka Mahadevi Caves: Lingayat memory & poetic space
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III: Lure of the Mountains
Kiron Susan Joseph Sebastine
Travel through Remote Terrains: Tibet in Focus
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Priyanka Chakraborty
Problematizing the Metaphor of Travel: A Study of the Journeys of Humans and Texts from India to Tibet
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Arup Pal
The Ascent Within: Transformative Agency of the Nanda Devi in Bill Aitken’s The Nanda Devi Affair
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IV: Focus on the North East
Shibashish Purkayastha
Travelling Identities, Bodies and the Poetics of Difference: Travel Writing in Assamese Literature
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Bhaskar Jyoti Gogoi
Looking In (/): A Case Study of Northeast with Special Reference to Tripura Buranji (1724)
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Nandini Kalita
The Self and the Other in Jnanadabhiram Barua’s Bilator Sithi (Letters from Abroad)
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Bibha Devi
A Critical Review of the First Travelogue written in an Indian language on Assam Udaseen Satyashrabar Asam Bhraman by Ramkumar Bidyaratna
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Rosy Chamling
Writing Northeast: Nandita Haksar’s Across the Chicken Neck
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V: Travelling West
Arup K. Chatterjee
The Story of our Experiments with London: The Victorian City in Indian Imagination (1870-1900)
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Dhwani N. Vaishnav
Can the Hypnotized Subaltern Speak? Assessing 19th Century Gujarati Travelogues to England
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Arnab Chatterjee
Writing Back Through Travel: A Study of The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan
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Sajal Dey
Russia through the Eyes of the Tagores: Travelogues of Rabindranath and Saumyendranath
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Abhijit Ghosh
Syed Mujtaba Ali’s Deshe Bideshe: An Indian’s perspective on Afghanistan
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Meera B.
The Travel Writer as Cultural Icon and Literary Predecessor: Negotiating the African Legacy of S. K. Pottekkat
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VI: Individual Texts
Tanutrushna Panigrahi
Revisiting the Narrative Powers of the Global South through The Travels of Dean Mahomet
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Sarbajaya Bhattacharya
“If possible, I too shall venture out into the world – that is my desire”: Reading Rabindranath Tagore’s Chhinnapatrabali as Travel Writing
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Pulkita Anand
Cross- Culture Dialogue in R.K. Narayan’s My Dateless Diary
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Shukla Chatterjee
The ‘Safar’ of a common man: Vijay Tendulkar’s travel play The Cyclist
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Hariom Singh
Travelling Across Borders: Temporality, Trauma, and Memory in Amitav Ghosh’s Dancing in Cambodia and At Large in Burma
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Gaana Jayagopalan
‘Amphibious Historiography’: Reading Samanth Subramanian’s Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast (2010) through the Actor-Network Theory
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Upamanyu Sengupta
Boundaries as Crossovers: The Shoreline as a Digressive Site in Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay’s Dhanapatir Sinhalyatra (2010)
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Saurabh Sarmadhikari
Representing Kolkata: A Study of ‘Gaze’ Construction in Amit Chaudhuri’s Calcutta: Two Years in the City and Bishwanath Ghosh’s Longing Belonging: An Outsider at Home in Calcutta
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R. Samuel Gnanaraj & S. Azariah Kirubakaran
Travel Discourses: Narrative of Witnessing Human Rights in Samanth Subramanian’s This Divided Island (2014)
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Akshita Chotia
A Journey of Exploration and Reconstruction of the Feminine Self: Reading Shivya Nath’s The Shooting Star: A Girl, Her Backpack and the World (2018)
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Sanchari Basu Chaudhuri
Flanerie in female solo travel: An analysis of blogspots from Shivya Nath’s The Shooting Star
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VII: Miscellaneous
Norden Michael Lepcha
Solon Karthak and Travelogues in Nepali Literature
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Raj Gaurav Verma
Travelogue for Children: Bhakti Mathur’s Amma, Take Me to the Golden Temple
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Siddharth Dubey
Journeying through the Indian Railways in Around India in 80 Trains (2012) by Monisha Rajesh and Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop But Get Never Off (2009) by Bishwanath Ghosh
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Meenu B.
Anxious Encounters with the (Monstrous) Other: The Yakshi Tales of Medieval Kerala
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Anupama A. P & Vinod Balakrishnan
Theorizing the Experience of Travel in the Film North 24 Kaatham
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Koushik Mondal
Postcolonial Queer Dimension of Travel in the Goopi-Bagha Trilogy of Films
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