Download or read book Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity written by Javed Majeed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.