Before the Raj: Writing Early Anglophone India

by James Mulholland

Book Overview

Anglo-India's regional literature was both a practical and imaginative response to a pivotal period in the early colonialism of South Asia.

During the later decades of the eighteenth century, a rapid influx of English-speaking Europeans arrived in India with an interest in expanding the creation and distribution of anglophone literature. At the same time, a series of military, political, and economic successes for the British in Asia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421439611
• ISBN13: 9781421439617
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"