A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas blends travel, ethnography, and empire, depicting the Himalayas through beauty and domination. It reveals colonial attitudes toward nature, people, and power, exposing imperial contradictions beneath adventure and admiration, writes Muhammad Nadeem Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas is not merely a travelogue; it is a layered historical document that captures the British colonial encounter with one of the world’s most formidable mountain landscapes. Written in 1860 under the nom de plume Mountaineer, the book belongs to a genre that blends exploration, ethnography, and empire. It records the impressions of a British traveller who ventured deep into the Himalayan world and Kashmir, combining vivi

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