Decolonial Travel

This volume brings together scholarship on indigenous forms of travel to decolonize travel theory.

Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Representation, Agency & Resilience (2021) and co-editor of Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (2020). His research interests span space and mobility, (post)nationalism and postcolonialism. In 2021, he was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship.

1. Decolonizing Travel(ing Theory), or the Discursive Limits of the '(Post)Colonial' 2. To go is to know (that you never went): A Sanskrit Buddhist map of selected illusions 3. Vedic Travel: The Agnihotra and Beyond 4. Travel(-ing) to Write: Authorship and Agency in an Era of Inter-Polity Mobility 5. The power of itinerancy: Religious leaders in the Nepal-India borderland 6. "Floating straight obedient to the stream": Bibliomigrancy and riverine journeys in colonial Bengal 7. Moving in Circles: 'Chakkars' in Rajasthani Women's Songs 8. Homeless in Gujarat and India: On the curious love of lndulal Yagnik 9. The Homeless Gandhi