Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason: Maps, Landscapes, Travelogues in Britain and India
Author:   Nilanjana Mukherjee (Department of English, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   314
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
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Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason: Maps, Landscapes, Travelogues in Britain and India


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Author:   Nilanjana Mukherjee (Department of English, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780367505745


ISBN 10:   0367505746
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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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.

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