Volume 12, Number 3, 2020Themed Issue on “India and Travel Narratives”
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Editorial Introduction |
Somdatta Mandal India and Travel Narratives Full Text HTML Full Text PDF |
I: General Overviews |
Simonti Sen Emergence of Secular Travel in Bengali Cultural Universe: Some Passing Thoughts Abstract Full Text PDF |
Shrutakirti Dutta Generic Shifts in Women’s Travel Writing between Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bengal Abstract Full Text PDF |
Jullie Rani Travelling another Country: An Exploration into Travel Writings by Bhojpuri Speakers of India Abstract Full Text PDF |
II: Pilgrimages |
M. G. Prasuna First Travel Narrative in Telugu: A Study of Yenugula Veeraswamaiyya’s Kasi Yatra Charitra Abstract Full Text PDF |
Niveditha Kalarikkal Beyond the Boundaries of Kochi: a Study of Raja Veera Keralavarma’s Travel Narrative to Kashi Abstract Full Text PDF |
Nilanjana Sikdar Datta Bengali Hindu pilgrims and travellers to the Himalayas from the late 19th to the late 20th century Abstract Full Text PDF |
Smitasri Joy Sarma No Man’s Land: Reading Travel Accounts In Pilgrimage Sites in Shanku Maharaj’s Bigalito Karuna Jahnabi Jamuna Abstract Full Text PDF |
Shafana Shaffi Travel and Writing in the Period of ‘High Imperialism’: Hajj Pilgrimage Narratives by the Begums of Bhopal Abstract Full Text PDF |
Taranjeet Kaur Chawla et al Visa-Free Travel to Sri Kartarpur Sahib: Historic Pilgrimage and Religious Tourism from Indian Punjab to Pakistan Punjab Abstract Full Text PDF |
Neeti Singh Akka Mahadevi Caves: Lingayat memory & poetic space Abstract Full Text PDF |
III: Lure of the Mountains |
Kiron Susan Joseph Sebastine Travel through Remote Terrains: Tibet in Focus Abstract Full Text PDF |
Priyanka Chakraborty Problematizing the Metaphor of Travel: A Study of the Journeys of Humans and Texts from India to Tibet Abstract Full Text PDF |
Arup Pal The Ascent Within: Transformative Agency of the Nanda Devi in Bill Aitken’s The Nanda Devi Affair Abstract Full Text PDF |
IV: Focus on the North East |
Shibashish Purkayastha Travelling Identities, Bodies and the Poetics of Difference: Travel Writing in Assamese Literature Abstract Full Text PDF |
Bhaskar Jyoti Gogoi Looking In (/): A Case Study of Northeast with Special Reference to Tripura Buranji (1724) Abstract Full Text PDF |
Nandini Kalita The Self and the Other in Jnanadabhiram Barua’s Bilator Sithi (Letters from Abroad) Abstract Full Text PDF |
Bibha Devi A Critical Review of the First Travelogue written in an Indian language on Assam Udaseen Satyashrabar Asam Bhraman by Ramkumar Bidyaratna Abstract Full Text PDF |
Rosy Chamling Writing Northeast: Nandita Haksar’s Across the Chicken Neck Abstract Full Text PDF |
V: Travelling West |
Arup K. Chatterjee The Story of our Experiments with London: The Victorian City in Indian Imagination (1870-1900) Abstract Full Text PDF |
Dhwani N. Vaishnav Can the Hypnotized Subaltern Speak? Assessing 19th Century Gujarati Travelogues to England Abstract Full Text PDF |
Arnab Chatterjee Writing Back Through Travel: A Study of The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan Abstract Full Text PDF |
Sajal Dey Russia through the Eyes of the Tagores: Travelogues of Rabindranath and Saumyendranath Abstract Full Text PDF |
Abhijit Ghosh Syed Mujtaba Ali’s Deshe Bideshe: An Indian’s perspective on Afghanistan Abstract Full Text PDF |
Meera B. The Travel Writer as Cultural Icon and Literary Predecessor: Negotiating the African Legacy of S. K. Pottekkat Abstract Full Text PDF |
VI: Individual Texts |
Tanutrushna Panigrahi Revisiting the Narrative Powers of the Global South through The Travels of Dean Mahomet Abstract Full Text PDF |
Sarbajaya Bhattacharya “If possible, I too shall venture out into the world – that is my desire”: Reading Rabindranath Tagore’s Chhinnapatrabali as Travel Writing Abstract Full Text PDF |
Pulkita Anand Cross- Culture Dialogue in R.K. Narayan’s My Dateless Diary Abstract Full Text PDF |
Shukla Chatterjee The ‘Safar’ of a common man: Vijay Tendulkar’s travel play The Cyclist Abstract Full Text PDF |
Hariom Singh Travelling Across Borders: Temporality, Trauma, and Memory in Amitav Ghosh’s Dancing in Cambodia and At Large in Burma Abstract Full Text PDF |
Gaana Jayagopalan ‘Amphibious Historiography’: Reading Samanth Subramanian’s Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast (2010) through the Actor-Network Theory Abstract Full Text PDF |
Upamanyu Sengupta Boundaries as Crossovers: The Shoreline as a Digressive Site in Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay’s Dhanapatir Sinhalyatra (2010) Abstract Full Text PDF |
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 Abstract Full Text PDF |
R. Samuel Gnanaraj & S. Azariah Kirubakaran Travel Discourses: Narrative of Witnessing Human Rights in Samanth Subramanian’s This Divided Island (2014) Abstract Full Text PDF |
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) Abstract Full Text PDF |
Sanchari Basu Chaudhuri Flanerie in female solo travel: An analysis of blogspots from Shivya Nath’s The Shooting Star Abstract Full Text PDF |
VII: Miscellaneous |
Norden Michael Lepcha Solon Karthak and Travelogues in Nepali Literature Abstract Full Text PDF |
Raj Gaurav Verma Travelogue for Children: Bhakti Mathur’s Amma, Take Me to the Golden Temple Abstract Full Text PDF |
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 Abstract Full Text PDF |
Meenu B. Anxious Encounters with the (Monstrous) Other: The Yakshi Tales of Medieval Kerala Abstract Full Text PDF |
Anupama A. P & Vinod Balakrishnan Theorizing the Experience of Travel in the Film North 24 Kaatham Abstract Full Text PDF |
Koushik Mondal Postcolonial Queer Dimension of Travel in the Goopi-Bagha Trilogy of Films Abstract Full Text PDF |