Decolonial Travel

Vernacular Mobilities in India
Herausgeber: Ray, Avishek

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together scholarship on indigenous forms of travel to decolonize travel theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781032858081
• ISBN-10: 1032858087
• Artikelnr.: 70975133

Autorenporträt

Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Representation, Agency & Resilience (2021) and co-editor of Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (2020). His research interests span space and mobility, (post)nationalism and postcolonialism. In 2021, he was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Decolonizing Travel(ing Theory), or the Discursive Limits of the
'(Post)Colonial' 2. To go is to know (that you never went): A Sanskrit
Buddhist map of selected illusions 3. Vedic Travel: The Agnihotra and
Beyond 4. Travel(-ing) to Write: Authorship and Agency in an Era of
Inter-Polity Mobility 5. The power of itinerancy: Religious leaders in the
Nepal-India borderland 6. "Floating straight obedient to the stream":
Bibliomigrancy and riverine journeys in colonial Bengal 7. Moving in
Circles: 'Chakkars' in Rajasthani Women's Songs 8. Homeless in Gujarat and
India: On the curious love of lndulal Yagnik 9. The Homeless Gandhi