India and the Traveller

Introduction
Section 1: Europe and India
1. Outsiders and Insiders: European Perceptions of India and the Problem of Cultural Distance -
Joan-Pau Rubies
2. Durbar Personas: Thomas Roe and Thomas Coryate at the Mughal Court - Christoph Heyl and Christian Feser
3. Discovering the Other: Northeast India in Early 19th-Century British Travel Writing - Nandana Dutta
4. Witnessing and Recording Sociocultural Realities in the Indian Subcontinent: William Dalrymple's The Age of Kali - Ajie George
Section 2: Asian Travellers and India
5. Chinese Pilgrims and Arab Traders in Medieval India - Rita Banerjee
6. In Search of the Buddha in India: Travelogues of Fuji Nichidatsu, a Buddhist Monk from Japan - Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya
7. India in the Eyes of Japanese Travellers: Kimura Nichiki in Bengal - Sumit Kumar Barua
Section 3: Self-Fashioning of Indian Travellers
8. The Bhadralok and His 'Wild West': Reading Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay's Palamou - Saugata Bhaduri
9. Pilgrimage Briefs: Negotiating Faith, Aesthetics and Environment - Jayati Gupta
10. Bangamahilar Japanyatra (1915): The Earliest Record of an Asian Woman's Travel to Japan - Nandita Basu
Section 4: Travel and Fiction
11. India Imagined and Imaged: 'Travel to India' in Modern Japanese Fiction and Non-fiction - M.V. Lakshmi
12. A Tale of Two Travels: Reading Historiography through Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land - Jaya Yadav
13. Narratives of Travelling Memory - Nishat Haider