Grewal The Culture of Travel The trope of mobility Mobility traveller vs native romanticism and scientific progress Freedom vs unfreedom even British women who ID: 464465
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Inderpal Grewal
“The Culture of Travel”Slide2
The trope of mobility
Mobility
—traveller
vs
native (
romanticism
and
scientific progress)
Freedom
vs
unfreedom
(
even British women who
could
not vote saw themselves as freer, belonging to the civilized world)Slide3
Colonial Modernity
The experience of modernity under colonial conditions—external and internal binaries
English education
New technologies and modes of travel
New forms of employment (colonial bureaucracy)
Nuclear families
Production of the middle class; class mobility Slide4
When natives travelled
discourses of travel created new forms of historical self-consciousness that were modern (oppositions of freedom/
unfreedom
; home and
abroad were re-worked)
Appropriations of European culture of travel, negotiated by Indian men and women contra other traditions of
travel and combined with local practices
Travel seen as bestowing prestige and social mobility (as against forced travel of the poor—maids, indentured
labour
, exotic servants, sailors)Slide5
Feeling modern
Production of gendered
selves
--r
econstitution
of domestic space under colonialism
Opposition of home and the world (a concept-metaphor) constitutive of colonial
modernity
Pre-existing caste, class, familial and gender demarcations
reworked (
cf
taboo on travel)
Indian men: equality with the British—new modes of patriarchal power (discovering an ancient past; mapping the nation); reform
Emergent
historical consciousnessSlide6
Class divides
Poor had always crossed the seas as indentured
labour
, servants, sailors, etc., as had Muslim and Jewish traders and merchants
For hajj
Now the Hindu elites found new opportunities through travel—education, professional attainmentsSlide7
Toru Dutt (1856-1877)
writer, traveller, first Indian woman to publish poetry in English