Abstract
Orientalist travelogues were not the true representation, rather these were the distorted accounts of Indian society as filtered through the prim of colonial travelers. It appears as if the travelers were rendering ancillary services for the colonial project.There is no doubt that the literature produced by the Orientalist travelogues is marked by certain errors, however one cannot ignore the importance of these travel accounts, as they are considered important documents of history. However one can find that it is a misrepresentation of the Oriental essence, as Edward Said has made his point: "My whole point about this system is not that it is a misrepresentation of some Oriental essence — in which I do not for a moment believe — but that it operates as representations usually do, for a purpose, according to a tendency, in a specific historical, intellectual, and even economic setting.”