From Space to Landscape: Mizoram (the Lushai Hills) in Colonial travel Writing
This paper aims to explore the construction of the ‘Lushai Hills’ (at present the Indian state of Mizoram) as a dystopian landscape in colonial military expedition reports, a major sub-genre of colonial travel writings by critically looking at The Lushai Expedition (1873), one of the earliest colonial documents on Mizoram. The text is authored by…
