The Return of the Mughal: Historical Fiction and Despotism in Colonial India, 1863-1908

This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India. Through detailed reconsiderations of canonical works by Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel and Romesh Chunder Dutt, the author argues for a more complex and integral understanding of the part played by the M...

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Main Author: Padamsee, Alex (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
British literature.
Civilization-History.
Imperialism.
Asia-History.
Great Britain-History.
ISBN:9781137354945
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The devil's sovereignty: plagiarism and political theology in Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King
  • 3. Flora Annie Steel and the jurisprudence of emergency
  • 4. Time and the nation: Mughals, Maine and modernities in Romesh Chunder Dutt's historical fiction
  • 5. Conclusion.

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