Reconsidering the West in Early Autobiographies and Travel Writings in Indian Writing in English

Abstract

they travelled to far off regions in the South-East
Asia and articulated the idea of the exotic east through their
travelogues for a curious western audience. The paper seeks to
study the changes in perceptions in early travel writings of the
east and the west and explores how the east was perceived by the
west and how these ideas changed with the advent of Colonialism
and Occidentalism.