1st Edition
Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason Maps, Landscapes, Travelogues in Britain and India
Introduction: maps, landscapes, travelogues: spatial articulation and the imperial eyes
PART I Cartographic imagination
1 Maps: the onset and dominance of cartographic reason
2 Mapping India: Rennell and Lambton
PART II Landscapes of control
3 Estates, gardens and enclosures: aesthetic framing of British landscapes
4 Framing India: Chinnery and D’Oyly
PART III Narrativising travel
5 Place and identity: travel narratives in the making of Britain
6 Narrating India: Hodges, Heber, Fraser and Hooker
Postscript
Bibliography
Biography
Nilanjana Mukherjee is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. Her earlier publications include Mapping India: Transitions and Transformations 18th–19th Centuries (co-edited with Sutapa Dutta, 2019). She has also received the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize for the year 2014 from the Indian Association of Commonwealth Languages and Literature for her article titled "Drawing Roads/Building Empire: Space and Circulation in Charles D'Oyly's Indian Landscapes" published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 37. She is also a former Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.
