Abstract
This article focuses on three travel texts written by Margaret Elizabeth Noble (1867–1911), an Irish school teacher who came to India and was initiated into the spiritual Order of Sri Ramakrishna. As an educationist, her social work consisted in setting up a school for girls that functions to this day in Baghbazar, a locality of old Calcutta. She became involved in the Indian nationalist movement and actively participated in several underground activities against British colonial rule. This was the reason that she had to operate from outside the Mission itself though personally she remained dedicated to the spiritual vows that she had taken. Her response to Indian civilisation and culture and her critique of colonial administration do not function within the paradigms of gender and race relations usually assigned to the British women who travelled to and in India. Her travelogues explore India and her culture while inscribing the ambivalent identities that shaped her personality, thoughts and vocation.
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