... the Individuation of Adela Quested in E. M. Forster’s and David Lean’s A Passage to India.” Heroines of Popular Culture . Ed. Pat Browne. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1987 . 41 –53. Buhariwala , Shervavaz . Arcades to a Dome: Humanism in the Novels of E. M. Forster . Atlantic...

... From India.” Meanings of Modernity: Britain From the Late-Victorian Era to World War II . Ed. Martin Daunton and Bernhard Rieger. Oxford: Berg, 2001 . 221 –40. Carey , John . The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880–1939 . London...

... the geographic regions on India's periphery, toward which the novel's action drives but which it never ultimately reaches, and two “developmental genres,” the picaresque and the bildungsroman, which the novel holds in tension. It argues further that whereas earlier studies of Kim and the bildungsroman have...

... is evident in a range of new literary and cultural productions since around 2000 in India and across the Third World and marks the contemporary moment by registering the inadequacy of earlier literary trends in deliberate ways. This essay seeks to illuminate the contours of the realist impulse through...

... of Small Things' feminist legal critique is not only perceptive and timely, but it also offers a crucial insight into the political stakes of the novel's aesthetic form. I use political and legal theory to identify India's property law and juridical economy as “possessive,” or exclusionary, and to explain...

...) of the Indian writer in the second half of the twentieth century. The issue at hand is much more complicated than is usually represented as the chasm between the India-based and the Indian diasporic writer. All through the twentieth century, novels written by writers of Indian origin from either location can...

... learn from the distance irony produces and as the occasion for testing tentative styles of reattachment to the metropole that seek deeper knowledge of British India and late imperial London than colonial exhibitions can display. Reading such texts today calls not for reaffirmations for ironic distance...

... Syncretic.” Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities . Ed. Antoinette Burton. London: Routledge, 1999 . 193 –206. Gandhi , M. K. “A Drain Inspector’s Report.” Young India 15 Sept . 1927 . Gaobcsi-Williams , Lisa . “The Intellectualism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Evolutionary...

... evoked-richly documented by Christopher Herbert in War of No Pity-an "extraordinary countercurrent" that was "tremendously robust and public" (16). This "countercurrent" criticized jingoism, racism, vindictiveness, and sometimes the entire imperial project in India. Herbert's book, then, joins...

....” Enlightenment Essays 4 ( 1973 ): 15 –28. Critchley , T.A. The Conquest of Violence: Order and Liberty in Britain . New York: Schocken Books, 1970 . Galbraith , John Kenneth . Introduction to The History of British India. Mill. Gikandi , Simon . Maps of Englishness: Writing...

... described, in his manifesto at the 1936 founding of the All-India Progressive Writers’ Association (AIPWA) in Lucknow, as literature in which some truth is made evident. . . . In literature this quality is pro- duced in full form when life’s realities and feelings are manifested...

... Caroline Reitz shows us why the detective enjoys this allotropic nature. In the process she convincingly argues that the roots of the domestic English detective lie in fact in India, and that far hmbeing a figure for invisible panopti- cal power, he often enjoys a more spectacular status, providing...

... the beginning of the nineteenth century, but makes a comeback in novels about the British in India in the period between 1830 and 1947, the period she has chosen to investigate. She asks why this displacement occurs and in what ways we are to under- stand its relocation to a colony. Her analysis...

... 14 ( Mar.-Apr . 2002 ): 5 –25. Armstrong , Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987 . Armstrong , Paul B. “Reading India: E. M. Forster and the Politics of Interpretation.” Twentieth-Century Literature 38.4 ( 1992...

...: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov.” Illuminations . Ed. Arendt Hannah. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken, 1968 . 83 -109. Birdwood , George C. M. The Industrial Arts of India . 1880. London: Chapman and Hall, 1884 . Burgin , G. B. “How Women Writers Work.” Idler 10 . 2...

... of global English. However, the importance of a globalized middle class, firmly entrenched in the market values and class structures of Western capitalism, is beyond dispute. Transnational publishing industries are invested in the market potential of South Asia, particularly India. Nielsen BookScan...

... which India is imagined as a bargain for colonials like Mrs. Mainwaring: “India was the one place in the world where servants still were servants. . . . One could hire a rickshaw for fourpence an hour . . . here were all the luxuries and amenities of the West at the knockdown prices of the East” (267...

... pressure from another, culturally different, world to come. As the staging of cultural difference masked realpolitik ambitions (in Iran, Turkey, India), the literary word would morph into sound byte—heard in fragments from the pulpit, on television, on the radio. Rushdie's complex theory of the stereotype...

... picturesque panegyric on the colonial liberties of horse riding in India, whereby Mansfield Park emerges as an imperial recruiting ground for women Fanny's restrained feminine riding wins out over Mary Crawford's suspect exhibitionism, which represents all that mebe marginalized from nineteenth...

... Ball , Charles . The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India; and a Concise History of the Great Military Events Which Have Tended to Consolidate British Empire in Hindostan . 2 vols. London: London Printing and Publishing, 1858-59 . Braddon...