| Editor's Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
The Structure of Colonial Fantasy
by K. D. Verma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Imperial Theatricality in British India from Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell
by John McBratney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Nation, Novel and History: Romeshchandra Dutt's Construction of the Past by Meenakshi Mukherjee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World by Anita Desai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Rabindranath Tagore's Spiritual Dream, Colonialism and the Aesthetics of Dharma
by Devdeep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Sri Aurobindo's Rodogune : The Relevance of Tragedy by Goutam Ghosal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| "The Englishmen and the Indians" by Jharna Sanyal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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History and Romance: Interchangeability of Genres in the Representation of History
by Rumina Sethi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Feminizing Famine, Imperial Critique: Pandita Ramabai's Famine Essays
by Ellen Brinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Forging Identities, Initiating Reforms: The Parsi Voice in Colonial India
by Nilufer E. Bharucha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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R. K. Narayan: Straddling Metropole and Malgudi
by Geoffrey Kain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Constructions of Englishness from the "Outside": Indian Accounts of Travel to England, 1880's-1920's
by Meenakshi Sharma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Perpetual Fringe: Ismat Chughtai and the Limits of Representation
by Deepika Marya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Indian "Renaissance" Self-(Re)fashioning and Colonialism: A Comparative Study of the 19th Century Gujarati and Hindi "Renaissance" Prose Writings
by Avadhesh Kumar Singh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Politics of Gender and Race: Representations and their location within the colonial space in A Passage to India and Chokher Bali (A Grain of Sand)
by Meenakshi Pawha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| "A Romance of England and India": Miscegenation as Metaphor in Colonial British Fiction by Loretta M. Mijares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Womanhood, a Myth and Reality: Reassessing Colonial Bengal in the Works of Santa Devi and Sita Devi by Dipannita Datta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Book Reviews
Judith Plotz, Hues; Pyramids of the Unsaid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
345 |
K. B. Gulati, Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay . . . . | 349 |
Michael W. Cox, Fault Lines: A Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 351 |
Suneet P. Chauhan, Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and
Modernity in South India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
354 |
Mathew Cook and Premlata Vaishnava, Hindi-English/
English-Hindi Dictionary and Phrasebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
357 |
Alamgir Hashmi, A Cry in the Wilderness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 360 |
Robin E. Field, Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 362 |
Laura Fitzwater, Encountering Kali, In the Margins, At the Center,
In the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
365 |
Rumina Sethi, Beyond Nationalist Frames: Relocating
Postmodernism, Hindutva, History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
368 |
Trisha Travers, Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and
Perilous Climbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
371 |
Jean W. Sedlar, India: A Global Studies Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 374 |
Abstracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 384 |
| Advertisements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 389 |