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Indian Travel Writing, 1830-1947 book cover

1st Edition

Indian Travel Writing, 1830-1947

Edited By Pramod K. Nayar
1800 Pages
by Routledge

Indian Travel Writing is a new five-volume collection co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse. Hitherto, the paucity of readily available travel writing produced by imperial subjects themselves has long been apparent, and this anthology addresses that lack. A veritable treasure-trove, it brings together scarce documents which are currently widely dispersed or very difficult for scholars,... Read more

Indian Travel Writing

Edited by Pramod Nayar

Volume 1: England and Europe

Contents

Introduction

1. Jehangeer Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee, ‘Tour to the Naval Arsenals and Principle Seaports’, in Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain (London: WH Allen, 1841), pp. 385-450.

2. Diary of the Late Rajah of Kolhapoor during his Visit to Europe in 1870, Edward West (ed.), (London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1872), pp. 1-41.

3. Lala Baijnath, England and India (Bombay: Jehangir B. Karani, 1893), pp. 21-55, 185-207, 208-219.

4. N. L. Doss, Reminiscences, English and Australasian (Calcutta: MC Bhowmick, 1893), pp. 34-93.

5. Jhinda Ram, My Trip to Europe (Lahore: Mufid-I-Am Press, 1893), pp. 11-32, 45-9, 53-7, 75-85, 95-122.

6. Jagatjit Singh, My Travels in Europe and America, 1893 (London: George Routledge, 1895), pp. 162-200.

7. Hajee Sulaiman Shah Mahomed, Journal of My Tours Round the World, 1886-1887 and 1893-1895 (Bombay: Duftur Ashkara Oil Engine Press, 1895), pp. 264-281.

8. Berhamji Malabari, The Indian Eye on English Life (Bombay: Apollo, 1895), pp. 148-171, 246-287.

9. Romesh Chunder Dutt, Three Years in Europe, 1868-1871 (Calcutta: SK Lahiri, 1896), pp. 204-304.

Volume 2: England and Europe

Contents

10. T. B. Pandian, England to an Indian Eye, Or English Pictures from an Indian Camera (London: Elliot Stock, 1897), pp. 4-18, 20-31, 79-83, 91-94.

11. Rakhal Das Haldar, The English Diary of an Indian Student, 1861-62 (Dacca: The Asutosh Library, 1903), pp. 26-68, 72-84, 88-93.

12. Syed Mahdi Hussain Bilgrami, Oxford and ‘Varsity Life (NP: A. Venoogopaul Pillya and Sons, 1907), pp. 1-55.

13. D. C. Jessawalla, The Story of My Life (Bombay: The Times, 1911), pp. 274-297, 334-341.

14. Cornelia Sorabjee, India Calling: The Memoirs of Cornelia Sorabji (London: Nisbet, 1934), pp. 19-53.

15. S. Natarajan, West of Suez (Bombay: The Indian Social Reformer, 1938), pp. 12-35, 72-93.

16. Kshitish Chandra Banerjee, My Impressions of the West (Calcutta: Phani Bhusan Roy, 1938), pp. 102-143.

17. K. J. Kharas, R. D. Gandhi, R. D. Shroff, Across the Highways of the World, 2nd ed. (Bombay: NP, 1941), pp. 28-43.

Volume 3: North America

Contents

18. A. L Roy, Reminiscences English and American: Part I: Three Years among the Americans (Calcutta: Roy, 1888), pp. 35-64, 88-104.

19. Hajee Sulaiman Shah Mahomed, Journal of My Tours Round the World, 1886-1887 and 1893-1895 (Bombay: Duftur Ashkara Oil Engine Press, 1895), pp. 108-146.

20. Jagatjit Singh, My Travels in Europe and America, 1893 (London: George Routledge, 1895), pp. 110-154.

21. Sudhindra Bose, Fifteen Years in America (Calcutta: Kar, Majumder & Co. 1920), pp. 24-38, 79-100, 261-279.

22. A. J. Appasamy, Student Life in the West (Madras: Christian Literature Society for India, 1929), pp. 9-16, 56-63, 72-83.

23. Cornelia Sorabjee, India Calling: The Memoirs of Cornelia Sorabji (London: Nisbet, 1934), pp. 290-299.

24. K. J. Kharas, RD Gandhi, RD Shroff, Across the Highways of the World, 3nd ed. (Bombay: NP, 1941.), pp. 98-120.

25. D. F. Karaka, New York with its Pants Down (Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1946), pp. 9-24, 33-40, 52-58, 81-87.

Volume 4: The Far East, Australia and New Zealand

Contents

26. N. L. Doss, Reminiscences, English and Australasian (Calcutta: MC Bhowmick, 1893), pp. 163-219.

27. Hajee Sulaiman Shah Mahomed, Journal of My Tours Round the World, 1886-1887 and 1893-1895 (Bombay: Duftur Ashkara Oil Engine Press, 1895), pp. 60-72.

28. Jagatjit Singh, My Travels in China, Japan and Java, 1903 (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1905), pp. 5-14, 57-99.

29. Sarat Chandra Das, A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet (New York: EP Dutton and London: John Murray, 1902), pp. 1-44, 104-121, 171-194.

30. Syed Ross Masood, Some Impressions of Japan (Hyderabad: Government Central Press, 1926), pp. 3-22.

31. Lalubhai Samaldas, My Impressions of Japan (Bombay: DB Taraporewala Sons & Co., 1933), pp. 5-7, 10-21, 106-129.

Volume 5: Africa, Afghanistan and the Middle-East

Contents

32. Mohan Lal, Journal of a Tour through the Panjab, Afghanistan, Turkistan, Khorasan, and part of Persia (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1834), pp. 71-124, 252-279, 289-305.

33. Hajee Sulaiman Shah Mahomed, Journal of My Tours Round the World, 1886-1887 and 1893-1895 (Bombay: Duftur Ashkara Oil Engine Press, 1895), pp. 16-23, 40-50, 306-318.

34. Hamid Yar Jung, A Trip to Baghdad (Bombay: The Bombay Gazette Press, 1908), pp. 4-28.

35. C. M. Cursetjee, The Land of the Date (Bombay: DB Taraporewala, 1918), pp. 30-39, 42-45, 50-61, 70-73, 87-98, 120-124, 138-141, 150-157, 173-183, 212-222.

36. Sorab K. H. Katrak, Through Amanullah’s Afghanistan (Karachi: DN Patel for Sind Observer and Mercantile Steam Press, 1929), pp. 25-34, 40-44, 60-65, 79-85.

37. K. J. Kharas, R. D. Gandhi and R. D. Shroff, Across the Highways of the World (Bombay, 1941), pp. 41-2, 47-70.

38. Kshitish Chandra Banerjee, Across the Near East (Calcutta, 1943), pp. 7-75.

Biography

Pramod K. Nayar

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