Women Travellers in Colonial India

A study of the different aspects of travel in Colonial India which have been noted by female travellers, as opposed to their male counterparts. The author examines the power relations inscribed into the traveller's gaze, and focuses on the travellers' encounters with Indian women in the zenana.

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Drawing on travel writings by British women in India, this study looks at the different aspects that women focus on as opposed to men, particularly in their encounters with Indian women in the zenana. Located at the cross-roads of feminist theory and colonial discourse theory, the book examines the power relations inscribed into the traveller's gaze.