Ranjan Bandyopadhyay Elsevier

‘‘RAJ REVIVAL’’ TOURISM Consuming Imperial/Colonial Nostalgia

‘‘We treat India rather as the Americans treat little old England—a country deeply ingrained in our history, but one that exists mostly in the cliche ́s of our mind. When we go there, we want the past—the Delhi of Lutyens, the Calcutta of Clive and the old steam train to Simla. We want to laugh at anachronisms and quaint In- dian English, discover our influence in Indian tastes for whisky and cricket and wonder which was the greater disaster: 300 years of British rule or 30 years of social- ism learnt at the LSE’’