Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms Series)
Book Details
Author(s)Gauri Viswanathan
PublisherColumbia University Press
ISBN / ASIN0231070845
ISBN-139780231070843
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,126,032
CategoryLanguage Arts & Disciplines
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Masks of Conquest reveals how English studies introduced in India under British rule came to be an effective form of political control abetting voluntary cultural assimilation. The author argues that the literary text functioned as a mirror of the ideal Englishman and became a mask of exploitation that camouflaged the material activities of the colonizing British government.









