This paper explores narratological techniques of counter-colonial ideas in the travel narrative of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, namely Safarnama e Musafirana e London (1869). It employs the strategies of contextualist-rhetorical narratology. This exploration contextualises Sir Syed's travel narrative with his contested ideologies of conservative and progressive Muslim thought that has so characterised conflicted image for a century and a half. Sir Syed's desire to support modernisation of Muslim attitudes, and countering the pressures of the readers of his travelogue, to the extent of alienating his readers, are also discussed as narratological evidence of his narrative honesty.Textual evidence Safarnama e Musafirana e London is thus shown to prove that Sir Syed intended his travelogue to be acounter-colonial document.