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Discovering the Familiar: Notes on the Travel-Account of Anand Ram Mukhlis, 1745

Despite its considerable production of literary and historical texts in a vast variety of genres, the Indian subcontinent in the early modern period appears a relative wasteland where the setting down of travel accounts is concerned. Searching through the Indian vernacular languages, one is hard pressed to come up with travel texts that are comparable to those produced in East Asia, or in the Arabicspeaking world, until at least the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries. Indeed, as we are frequently reminded, the genre of ’travel-record literature’ (yuchi wen hsfeh) had flourished in China from at least Song times, even if it was not necessarily known by that name.3 By the Ming and Ch’ing eras (what we might call the early modern epoch), travelogues were a perfectly common form of literature, so much so that almost any litterateur of the epoch in Chinese worth his salt considered it de rigueur to leave behind a travel-account of some kind. In contrast, the South Asian landscape appears regrettably bleak. The best that