Passages, Journeys, and Returns: A Poetics for South Asian Travel Writing

Abstract

This is the text of the plenary address that Chelva Kanaganayakam gave at the “International Conference on Travel Literature and India” held on February 20-21, 2007 at Satyawati College, University of Delhi. Publication of this paper is made possible by the kind contribution of the conference organizer, Nivedita Misra, who had requested a copy of the plenary text for possible publication from Chelva Kanaganayakam.