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

该项目探讨了19世纪在19世纪以其原始英语，乌尔都语和波斯语形式的四名穆斯林印度旅行者到英国的账目，自传和回忆录。我将要研究的文本是波斯iqbal-i firang bynawab iqbalud daulah（加尔各答，1834年），卢特拉（Lutfullah）的英语自传《穆罕默德绅士》（Mohamedan Gentleman），bye.b。 Eastwick（伦敦，1857年），Maseehuddin Alvi的Urdu Tarikh-i Inglistan（在Kakori Dargah的手稿，1860年）和Syedahmad Khan的Urdu Musafiran-i伦敦（c。1870）。四个图形都具有较高的殖民地级别的工作经验。此外，所有人都是特权背景的穆斯林，但由于其独立的身份，环境和目的的有争议要求，他们的经历是异基因的。此外，它们的文本跨越四十年，包括1857年的不成功起义，因此，它们使我们深入了解了印度印度帝国帝国权力和英国与穆斯林主题之间不断变化的殖民殖民地的轮廓。南亚亚洲帝国与英国的旅行在英国写作的重要理由，尽管如此，它还是很广泛地集中在了一些学术询问的基础上，因此很少有一部分，因此很少有任何形式的形象。 1730-1800）和他的Shigarf-nama-i Vilayat（c。1780S），Mirzaabu Taleb Khan的Masir-I Talibi和Dean Mahomet的旅行（1794年）。因此，我专注于受到较少关注的数字。我的重点将是如何遵守或偏离统治波斯和乌尔都语传统的规范，包括阿布·塔利布（Abu Taleb）和尤苏夫·汗·坎巴尔波什（Yusuf Khan Kambalposh）的英国账户（约1830-1890），以及他们如何理解他们写作的范围和ambit。作品生产的刻意风格选择 - 由伊克巴鲁德·多拉（Iqbalud Daulah）本人，卢特拉（Lutfullah）本人，卢特拉（Lutfullah）的英语原始作品，由伊斯特威克（Eastwick）编辑，梅耶胡丁（Maseehuddin）的乌尔都语手稿编辑，以及Syedahmad的序列化信件和日记条目 - 揭示了关于这些工作的本质，这些工作的本质和撰写的作品都很大程度上是撰写的。我将研究以私人通信，评论和公共领域中的其他表达方式产生旅行的语言的学术关注。这是为了了解“预期的受众”如何收到文本，以及与同一时间相同的英语旅行者所差异的程度。此外，我将研究旅行社的内容是如何由作者的背景来塑造的，以及其中多少取决于作者在他的社会中的位置。赛义德·艾哈迈德（Syed Ahmad）的旅行曲目像现代主义和社会改革一样，告诉我们他的处境和伊克巴德·多拉（Iqbalud Daulah）的不合格的英国对他的境地一样。在检查这些文本时，我将进行许多查询。撰稿人通过写经验来实现什么，他们对英国的刻画如何对自己，英国统治者和印第安人同胞造成了不利影响？这些作者如何在穆斯林，印第安人和殖民地主题的文本中时尚，以及他们如何在英国进行“外国人”？他们是如何将自己的文字写在旅行写作的传统中？在Whatsense中，我们可以将英国视为其帐户中的“联系区”？在上面提到的，我还将以他们在写的语言中以旅行的传统为中。通过这样做，我还将思考他们如何在家中传达自己的经验，以及如何收到他们的作品。最后，我将考虑这些作品告诉我们有关当代种族，归属，信仰和殖民者 - 殖民化关系的问题以及术语不断变化的含义