Negotiating the landscape: travel, transaction, and the mapping of colonial India.

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the journals and records of surveyors who participated in the Great Arc review of India in the early nineteenth hundred reading these texts as a form of specialized, supplementary travelogue. Reviewing postcolonial studies of colonial cartography, it argues that the transacted, interdiscursive quality of the colonial map, whilst invisible in the cartographic body itself, is revealed strikingly in the narrative accounts of the Great Arc contemplate As part of this discussion of the potentially counter-hegemonic negotiation of colonial mapping, this