A Various Universe: A Study of the Journals and Memoirs of British Men and Women in the Indian Subcontinent 1765-1856 (Oxford India Collection)
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Book Details
Author(s)Ketaki Kushari Dyson
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN / ASIN0195682866
ISBN-139780195682861
Sales Rank4,536,803
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
In this book readers are invited to explore a fascinating but neglected field of English letters; the books written by British men and women about their experience in the Indian subcontinent. Over forty individual works are surveyed, covering the time period from when the East India Company began consolidating its powers to the eve of the Mutiny. The author balances generous excerpts from the original texts with her own exegeses to produce a work which offers rich insights to lay readers as well as to professional students of literature, history, sociology, anthropology, and travel writing.
