Though Indians have been travelling for the last few centuries, documentation of their travels have been scarce and far between. Pilgrimage, trade, and conquest drove the earliest subcontinental travels, but it was specifically a male domain. Though much less in number as compared to the men, women’s travel writing from colonial Bengal resulted in the co-existence of conservatism and emancipation in the social history of the region. Though historically women have been more associated with fixity,
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