Travel Writing and the Empire

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Sachidananda Mohanty
Katha, 2003 - 185 pages
Travel has been a mode of assessment of territory, of knowledge gathering, and of putting a discursive system into place. This volume, edited and introduced by Sachidananda Mohanty, brings to you the range of hidden discourses that constituted and explored the issues central to the political and literary representation of Indian reality, and the politics behind it.

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The Empire Travel Writing and British Studies
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Ideological Basis of the Persian Picaro
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Fanny Parkes
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Copyright

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