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December, 2005
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Contents

Editor's Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	1
Colonial Circuits of Power, Indian Raw Materials: An Analysis of Nathaniel Brassey Halhed's A Code of Gentoo Laws (1776) by Nalini Jain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	3
Phillip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug: Thuggee Theatricality and the Horror of the Oriental Other by Jeffrey Cass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	21
Empire and Nation: Political Ideology in Rabindrinath Tagore's Travel Writings by Mohammad A. Quayum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	41
Rabindrinath Tagore's Gora and the Quest for an Indian National Identity by Husne Jahan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	60
A Poetry of Proportions: Nissim Ezekiel's Quest for the Exact Name by Makarand Paranjape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	79
(Re)Writing History, (Un)Settling Relationships: The Indian National Imaginary and Alternate Maps of Belonging by Nandita Ghosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	96
Bibi's Babel: Treating Jhumpa Lahiri's The Treatment of Bibi Haldar as the Malady of Interpreters by Brewster E. Fitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	116
Introducing Nury Vittachi by Stuart Christie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	132
Queering Diaspora and Transnational Multicultural Feminism: New Cultural Forms in Nisha Ganatra's Chutney Popcorn, Deepa Mehta's Fire, and Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night by Jaspal Kaur Singh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	148
The Damned Mother and The Unnamed Other: Uncovering the Unconscious in Midnight's Children and Funny Boy by Ashok Rajamani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	162
The Messiness of Rebirth as an Immigrant: Bharati Mukherjee's Changing Language of Migration by Ruth Maxey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	181
Space of the Crazy in Saadat Hasan Manto's Toba Tek Singh by Smita Das . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	202
Adarallu Idu ["This, even in the midst of that"]: Girish Karnad Talks about A. K. Ramanujan and His Own Dramaturgy by Anjali Nerlekar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	217
Reminiscences: Selected Letters of Mulk Raj Anand by K. D. Verma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	237
Provincializing America: Engaging Postcolonial Critique and Asian American Studies in a Transnational Mode by Kavita Daiya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	265
The Local and the Transnational in Badami's The Hero's Walk by Maya Sharma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	276
Book Reviews Jean W. Sedlar, The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	288
Michael W. Cox, I am the Woman: I am the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	292
Robin E. Field, Amitav Ghosh: An Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	296
David E. Magill, Pedagogy, Canon, and Context: Toward a Re-Definition of Ethnic American Literary Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	299
Abstracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	303
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	312

Last Reviewed: September 8, 2007