Colonised Gaze? Guidebooks and Journeying in Colonial India

Mukhopadhyay, Aparajita

doi:10.1080/00856401.2014.952972

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“…Currently, literature focuses on this last aspect of guidebooks as texts, particularly on the interpretation of specific places (e.g. Bergmeister, 2015;Garcia-Fuentes, 2016;Mukhopadhyay, 2014;Ogden, 2019, among others) and less extensively on the use of guidebooks as tourism information sources (e.g. Fujii et al, 2016;Putri & Dewi, 2014;Yasin, Baghirov, & Zhang, 2017).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourist information channels as consumer choice: the value of tourist guidebooks in the digital age

Mieli

Zillinger

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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The present research aims at understanding the value of travel guidebooks as an object of consumption in the context of the digital age. It does so by applying a consumer value perspective to an object that has traditionally been studied as an information channel or as a cultural text and not as an object of consumption. Holbrook's consumer value framework was adopted to identify the value dimensions associated with guidebooks, and the underlying reasons for their use. Given the explorative nature of the study, a qualitative study design was chosen, and fifteen indepth interviews were conducted. The results suggest that the use and value of guidebooks are strongly connected to emerging Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Information needs are evolving due to technological development: the constant availability of online information has caused the temporal dimension of tourists' information needs to shift so that decisions can be postponed until right before consumption, making information search more serendipitous. Several types of value were identified which go beyond information needs, and they are: efficiency, excellence, play, aesthetics, status, esteem, spirituality and ethics.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourist information channels as consumer choice: the value of tourist guidebooks in the digital age

Mieli

Zillinger

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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“…Although there has been research on Indian travelers during imperial rule (Mukhopadhyay, 2014;Harder, 2020;Gulfishan Khan, 1999;Burton, 1996;S. Sen, 2005;Codell, 2007;Fisher, 2007), there is little on the link between Dutt's European travels and his poverty theory, to which I shall now turn.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…More importantly, however, the imperial context meant that traveling to the empire's core became an "empowering act" (Codell, 2007, p.174). As several scholars have analyzed, the travel guides produced by Indian travels to Britain had more purpose than to serve as touristic handbooks (Mukhopadhyay, 2014;Harder, 2020;Gulfishan Khan, 1999;Burton, 1996;Codell, 2007). The travelogues proved that the imperial streets could be possessed by its imperial subjects (Burton, 1996, p.133).…”

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Poverty Theory in Action: How Romesh Chunder Dutt's European Travels Affected His Poverty Theory, 1868–93

Bach

2022

History of Political Economy

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The history of economics literature has few studies on how traveling impacts economists and their ideas. Much fewer still on the travels of lesser known economists such as Romesh Chunder Dutt. Dutt (1848–1909) was the founder of agricultural economics in India, a civil servant in the imperial administration, a writer, and an early nationalist fighting for Indian independence. Dutt encouraged traveling because, according to him, if Indians were to see and experience progress in Europe they could better understand modernity. Indian travel writing, unlike the European counterpart, was about experiencing what Indians had learned about modernity at the imperial universities in India. And yet, when the Indian travelers went to Europe they observed modernity alongside poverty, something that modernity should have excluded. Travel and travel writing for imperial subjects like Dutt was an empowering act where the gaze of the other was reversed: Indians showed that they could now also observe and study the British subject. I argue that Dutt's travels ultimately provided him with a new method to examine the world and criticize the way it was organized.

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“…Steamships and railways had immense impacts on South Asian as well as European and North American people and experiences, and the other trappings of travel that came with them-such as guidebooks and phrasebooks-were not the exclusive preserve of European languages. Guidebooks to a range of destinations (although not, to the best of my knowledge, Palestine) were issued by Indian publishing houses, 32 while the commercial potential of travelers to Arabicspeaking countries is reflected in the existence of colloquial Arabic phrasebooks in languages such as Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu. 33…”

Section: South Asian Travel In the Levant Under Islamic Rulementioning

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"Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho": Tourism, Pilgrimage and South-South relations in Interwar Palestine

Irving

2023

Mashriq & Mahjar

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In press coverage of the 1927 earthquake in Palestine, frequent mention is made of the deaths of three women at the Winter Palace Hotel in Jericho. That the three were from British-occupied India apparently rendered them unusual enough to be noted by a journalist, whose observation was reproduced around the world. This article draws on newspapers, official documents and secondary literatures on the hajj, tourism and the British Empire to consider the history of South Asian travellers to Palestine and relationships between colonialism and travel in the interwar period. One of the three women was Lady Abdul Rauf, the wife of a retired High Court judge and veteran Indian Muslim nationalist campaigner, Sir Syed Abdul Rauf. The couple had departed Bombay in April 1927 for the hajj to Mecca and Medina, but extended their trip to include Jericho. This was not unusual; the Indian Hospice in the Old City of Jerusalem attests to a long history of Indian visitors to Palestine. This paper, however, locates the ill-fated presence of Lady Abdul Rauf and her companions in the changing nature of Indian travel in the region, as religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem combined with politics and tourism, and as changing infrastructures of capitalism and colonialism shifted how Indian visitors experienced Palestine.

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Colonised Gaze? Guidebooks and Journeying in Colonial India

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Tourist information channels as consumer choice: the value of tourist guidebooks in the digital age

Tourist information channels as consumer choice: the value of tourist guidebooks in the digital age

Poverty Theory in Action: How Romesh Chunder Dutt's European Travels Affected His Poverty Theory, 1868–93

"Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho": Tourism, Pilgrimage and South-South relations in Interwar Palestine

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