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Volume 27, No. 2

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December, 2006
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Contents

Editor's Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	1
Travels Outside the Empire: The Revision of Subaltern Historiography in Amitav Ghosh by Scott McClintock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	5
Nineteenth-Century Narrative Techniques in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance by Lisa Moody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	25
Thematic Affinities in Shelley and Tagore by Harish Chander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	48
" Filmy Glazes" in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children by Moumin Quazi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	72
Forging States of Belonging: Migrant Memory, Nation, and Subjectivity in Meena Alexander's Memoir Fault Lines by Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	93
The Female Face of the Raj: Studies in Selected Fiction by Vijay Prakash Singh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	116
Sexuality and the Fiction of R. K. Narayan by Fakrul Alam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	134
Raja Rao: In Memoriam by Makarand Paranjape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	152
Caught Between Cultures by Rumina Sethi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	169
Institutionalization of English in India--A Historical Background by Meenakshi Sharma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	175
The Native Discursive Insurgency in The Varthamanappusthakam by Navneet Kumar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	190
"Gateman's Gift": Self-Reflexive Irony and Allegory in the Narrative of R. K. Narayan by Brewster E. Fitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	204
The Metaphor of Quilts and Quiltmaking in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine by Deborah Weagel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	219
Shashi Tharoor's Riot: A Novel about the Construction of Identity, the Nature of Truth, Re-Presentation and the Ownership of History by Nishat Haider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	235
Recent Criticism: A Bibliography of Articles Published in the South Asian Review 1991-2005 by Maria Bodenschatz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	252
Book Reviews Michael W. Cox, The Inheritance of Loss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	261
Abdollah Zahiri, Magic Seeds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	265
Robin E. Field, The Splendor of Silence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	268
Nyla Ali Khan, Against History, Against State: Counterperspectives from the Margin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	271
Hayat Alvi-Aziz, Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	274
Gayatri Devi, The Inheritance of Loss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	279
Pretti Chauhan, Daughters of Kerala: Twenty-Five Short Stories by Award-Winning Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	283
Anupama Singh, Specters of Mother India: The Global Structuring of an Empire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	286
Shahid Imtiaz, Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	289
Abstracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	291
Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	298

Last Reviewed: November 9, 2007