Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque

by Fanny Parkes; Edited by Indira Ghose and Sara Mills

• ISBN13: 9780719053504
• ISBN10: 0719053501
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-07-06
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This edition of Fanny Parkes' account of her travels in India provides valuable insight into middle-class British women's views on Indian life. It includes descriptions of the Zenana and Indian domestic life--subjects that are often omitted from male-authored travel texts.

Author Biography

Indira Ghose is Lecturer in English Literature at the Free University in Berlin.

Sara Mills is Research Professor of Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xii
Part 1 Introduction by Indira Ghose and Sara Mills	1	(18)
Part 2 Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque	19	(373)
Introduction	27	(4)
Life in India	31	(6)
Residence in Calcutta	37	(5)
Residence in Calcutta	42	(10)
Residence in Calcutta	52	(4)
Departure from the Presidency	56	(9)
Life in the Mufassil	65	(4)
Residence at Allahabad	69	(8)
Life in the Zenana	77	(8)
Residence at Prag	85	(7)
Sketches at Allahabad	92	(8)
Removal to Cawnpore--Confessions of a Thug	100	(8)
Arrival at Cawnpore	108	(10)
Residence at Cawnpore--The Dewali	118	(11)
Scenes in Oude	129	(9)
Revelations of Life in the Zenana	138	(9)
The Return to Allahabad--Execution of Twenty-Five Thugs	147	(12)
Scenes at Allahabad--Pilgrimage to the Triveni	159	(8)
Life in the Zenana	167	(6)
Adventures in the East	173	(8)
The Great Fair at Allahabad	181	(9)
The Nut Log	190	(5)
The Cholera	195	(9)
The Muharram	204	(6)
The Brahmanical Thread	210	(12)
Pilgrimage to the Taj	222	(11)
Pilgrimage to the Taj	233	(7)
The Taj Mahul	240	(7)
Pleasant Days in Agra	247	(8)
Revelations of Life in the Zenana	255	(9)
Life in the Zenana, and Chita Hunting	264	(8)
Fathipoor Sicri and Colonel Gardner	272	(7)
The Marriage	279	(12)
The Burat	291	(7)
The Chaotree	298	(8)
The Mahratta Queen	306	(6)
The Nawab Hakim Menhdi	312	(7)
A Voyage on the Ganges	319	(5)
The Mahratta Camp	324	(7)
The Mahrattas at Allahabad	331	(9)
A Tufan	340	(8)
The Famine	348	(10)
Pleasant Days in Camp	358	(3)
Ruins of Delhi	361	(6)
The Zenana at Delhi	367	(6)
Departure from Allahabad	373	(5)
Scenes on the Ganges	378	(12)
The Farewell	390	(2)
Oriental proverbs and sayings	392	(12)
Map	404	(1)
Appendix	405	(11)
Glossary	416	(11)
Bibliography	427	(3)
Index	430