Travel writing is one form of spatial architectonics. This chapter discusses writings by multiple British travellers over the early period of British interaction in India. Subsequently, it highlights excerpts from writings by William Hodges, Bishop Reginald Heber, James Baillie Fraser and Joseph Dalton Hooker to examine a dominant conceptual trope of moral topography along with a missionising evangelical cartography that belied the philanthropy in these works. Such textual methods rendered space determinable, describable and finally, legible, thereby culturally creating a normative affective region emplotted onto a vacuous map. Travel literature, by offering topographical and ethnographical details, subjugated space and transformed it into place. The discursive formation of the boundaries of the known terrain hardened as surely as maps limned the bounds of known territory.