Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity: Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

by Javed Majeed

This book examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in formulating the complex tie between interiority and nationality in South Asia.

315 pages, Hardcover

First published January 18, 2007

About the author

Javed Majeed is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at King's College London, UK, and has held appointments at SOAS, University of London, and Queen Mary, University of London.