Edited by Niranjan Goswami The reception and construction of the image of India by French, English and German travellers, writers and thinkers is the theme of this volume. The twelve contributors revisit Indological, philological, and postcolonial understandings of travel narratives, and provide fresh glosses from the vantage of cultural history, historiography, ethnography, material culture, economic modes of production, fictional travel, epistolary discourse, theatrical representation of widowhood, women in the Mutiny, feminist reading of the Mughal court, colonial painting and classical music. Circumscribed by the dates of the arrival of Ralph Fitch, the first English traveller to India, and the First War of Indian Independence in 1857, this anthology revives interest about the appropriation of India in the Western imaginary during the Early Modern and the colonial periods. Publication Jadavpur University Press