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Decolonial Travel: Vernacular Mobilities in India
Edited by Avishek Ray
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This volume brings together scholarship on indigenous forms of travel to decolonize travel theory. It looks at certain minoritarian-vernacular traveling cults – very rarely examined – that compel us to rethink, on the one hand, the conventional tropes of and rationales for travel; and, on the other hand, notions of (post)coloniality, nationalism and modernity in the context of India. The book illustrates the enduring problematic of the ‘colonial episteme’: how it deploys pervasive categories through which travel practices are sought to be understood, and why such categories are inadequate in accounting for the vernacular traveling cults in question. In studying the vernacular world-making in and through these cults, this book offers critical insights on how they defy the log(ist)ics of the ‘imperial categories’ and why they must be read as expressions of decoloniality. An important contribution to travel studies, the book will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of South Asian studies, travel theory, Indian literary and cultural studies, cultural history and anthropology, sociology, and decoloniality.
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 8 Nov 2024
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 190
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 530g
ISBN | 978-1-0328-5808-1
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BISAC | travel / asia / india
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