Britain in Indian Travelogues: A Study of English, Urdu, and Persian Accounts of the Nineteenth Century

印度游记中的英国：十九世纪英语、乌尔都语和波斯语记载研究

• 批准号: 2761734
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2761734
• 关键词: Britain; Indian; Travelogues; Study; English

This project examines the accounts, autobiographies, and memoirs of four Muslim Indian travellers to Britain during the19th century in their original English, Urdu, and Persian forms. The texts I will examine are the Persian Iqbal-i Firang byNawab Iqbalud Daulah (Calcutta, 1834), Lutfullah's English Autobiography of Lutfullah A Mohamedan Gentleman, edited byE.B. Eastwick (London, 1857), Maseehuddin Alvi's Urdu Tarikh-i Inglistan (Manuscript at Kakori dargah, c. 1860), and SyedAhmad Khan's Urdu Musafiran-i London (c. 1870).All four figures had close experience of the workings of colonial power at its higher levels. Moreover, all are Muslims ofa privileged background but their experiences are heterogenous because of the contesting demands of their separate identities, circumstances, and purposes. Furthermore, their texts span four tumultuous decades, including the unsuccessful Uprising of 1857, and as such, they give us an insight into the changing contours of colonial power and relations between imperial Britain and Muslim subjects in India.South Asian travel writing to Britain has been a rich ground of academic inquiry, although much of it has focussed on a fewselect figures, such as Sheikh Itesamuddin (c. 1730-1800) and his Shigarf-Nama-i Vilayat (c. 1780s), Masir-i Talibi of MirzaAbu Taleb Khan, and the Travels of Dean Mahomet (1794). I am therefore focussing on figures who have received less attention. My focus will be on how theseauthors conformed to or deviated from the norms governing the safar-nama tradition of Persian and Urdu, including thetravel accounts of Britain by Abu Taleb and Yusuf Khan Kambalposh (c. 1830-1890), and how they understood the scope and ambit of their writing. The deliberate stylistic choices of the production of the works - an English translationprovided by Iqbalud Daulah himself, Lutfullah's English original edited by Eastwick, Maseehuddin's Urdu manuscript, and SyedAhmad's serialised letters and journal entries - reveal a great deal about the nature of the work they produced and howthey viewed the function and purpose of travel writing. I will look at the scholarly attention paid to travel-writing in the languages in which the travelogues were produced, in private correspondence, reviews, and other expressions in the public sphere.This is with a view to understanding how the 'intended audience' received the texts, and to what extent this differed fromcontemporary reception accorded to English travelogues of the same time. Moreover, I will examine how the content ofthe travelogues are shaped by the contexts of the author, and how much of that depends upon where the author placeshimself within his society. Syed Ahmad's travelogue, focussing as it does on modernism and social reform, tells us as muchabout his circumstances as Iqbalud Daulah's unqualified panegyric of Britain does about his. In examining these texts, I will pursue a number of lines of inquiry. What did the authorshope to achieve by writing their experience, and how does their portrayal of Britain have abearing on themselves, British rulers, and their fellow Indians? How did these authorsfashion themselves in their texts as Muslims, Indians, and colonial subjects in relation toBritain and how did they perform their 'foreign-ness' in Britain? How did they situate theirtexts in the traditions of travel writing of the languages in which they were writing? In whatsense can we see Britain as a 'contact zone' in their accounts? Asnoted above, I will also situate their texts in the traditions of travelogue in the language inwhich they were writing. In doing so I will also reflect on how they communicated theirexperiences to their fellow countrymen at home, and how their works were received inIndia. Finally, I will consider what these works tell us about contemporary questions of race,belonging, belief, and coloniser-colonised relations and the changing meanings of the terms

该项目以英语、乌尔都语和波斯语的原版形式考察了 19 世纪四位前往英国的印度穆斯林旅行者的记述、自传和回忆录。我将研究的文本是 Nawab Iqbalud Daulah 所著的波斯语 Iqbal-i Firang（加尔各答，1834 年）、Lutfullah 的英文自传《Lutfullah A Mohamedan Gentleman》，由 E.B. 编辑。 Eastwick（伦敦，1857 年）、Maseehuddin Alvi 的 Urdu Tarikh-i Inglistan（手稿于 Kakori dargah，约 1860 年）和 SyedAhmad Khan 的 Urdu Musafiran-i London（约 1870 年）。这四位人物都对殖民权力在较高层面的运作有着密切的经验。此外，所有人都是有着特权背景的穆斯林，但由于他们各自的身份、环境和目的的不同要求，他们的经历也各不相同。此外，他们的文本跨越了四个动荡的十年，包括 1857 年不成功的起义，因此，它们让我们深入了解殖民权力的变化轮廓以及英国帝国和印度穆斯林臣民之间的关系。 写给英国的南亚游记一直是学术探究的丰富基础，尽管其中大部分集中在少数选定的人物上，例如谢赫·伊特萨穆丁（Sheikh Itesamuddin，约公元 1700 年）。 1730-1800）和他的 Shigarf-Nama-i Vilayat（约 1780 年代）、MirzaAbu Taleb Khan 的 Masir-i Talibi 以及 Dean Mahomet 的游记（1794 年）。因此，我将重点放在那些受到较少关注的人物上。我的重点将是这些作者如何遵守或偏离波​​斯语和乌尔都语的 safar-nama 传统规范，包括阿布·塔勒布和优素福·汗·坎巴尔波什（约 1830-1890 年）对英国的旅行记述，以及他们如何理解自己写作的范围和范围。这些作品的创作风格经过深思熟虑的选择——由伊克巴鲁德·道拉本人提供的英文译本、伊斯特威克编辑的卢特富拉的英文原稿、马西胡丁的乌尔都语手稿以及赛义德·艾哈迈德的连载信件和日记条目——揭示了他们创作的作品的本质以及他们如何看待旅行写作的功能和目的。我将研究学术界对游记所用语言、私人信件、评论和公共领域其他表达形式的游记写作的关注。这是为了了解“目标受众”如何接受这些文本，以及这与同时代的英语游记的当代接受有多大不同。此外，我将研究游记的内容是如何受到作者的背景影响的，以及这在多大程度上取决于作者将自己置于社会中的位置。赛义德·艾哈迈德的游记重点关注现代主义和社会改革，它向我们讲述了他的处境，就像伊克巴鲁德·道拉对英国无条件的赞美一样。在研究这些文本时，我将进行一些探究。作者希望通过写下他们的经历来达到什么目的？他们对英国的描绘对他们自己、英国统治者和他们的印度同胞有什么影响？这些作者如何在他们的文本中将自己塑造成与英国相关的穆斯林、印度人和殖民地臣民，以及他们如何在英国表现出自己的“异乡性”？他们如何将自己的文本置于其所用语言的旅行写作传统中？在什么意义上我们可以将英国视为他们账户中的“接触区”？如上所述，我还将他们的文本置于他们所用语言的游记传统中。在此过程中，我还将反思他们如何向国内同胞传达他们的经验，以及他们的作品在印度如何受到欢迎。最后，我将考虑这些作品告诉我们的关于种族、归属、信仰、殖民者与殖民者关系等当代问题以及术语含义的变化