Overview
Connects the rise of the historical novel about India’s Mughal past to key moments of British imperial consolidation over the Indian territory
Looks at the literary history of Mughal sovereignty in British and Indian historical fictions of the nineteenth century, and its central role in providing justification for colonial British rule
Describes the complexities of British engagement with India’s Mughal past, and the different uses it was put to by colonial historians and administrators
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alex Padamsee is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury UK. He is the author of Representations of Indian Muslims in British Colonial Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and has published widely on the politics and literatures of colonial and postcolonial South Asia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Return of the Mughal: Historical Fiction and Despotism in Colonial India, 1863–1908
Authors: Alex Padamsee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-35494-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35493-8Published: 14 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35494-5Published: 03 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 178
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Cultural History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of South Asia, History of Britain and Ireland