Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason

This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalists of cultural artefacts such as landscape paintings travel literature and cartography as spatial practices overtly carrying scientific truth claims to materially produce artificial spaces that reinforced power relations. It sheds light on the primary dominance of cartographic reason in the age of European enlightenment which framed aesthetic and scientific modes of representation and imagination. The author cross-examines this imperial gaze as a visual perspective which bore the material inscriptions of a will to assert possess and control. The distinguishing br>Theme in this study is the production of India as a new Geography sources from Britains own interaction with its rural outskirts and domination in its fringes. this book: rethinking colonial constructions of modern India this volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern history cultural Geography colonial studies English literature cultural studies art visual studies and Area studies.