"Recovering a rich archive of ephemera, author Mulholland studies anglophone writers of British colonial India in the eighteenth century, the era of the East India Company. He shows how regional, rather than exclusively British, newspapers served as a major site for Anglo-Indian…
Revealing the vibrant literary culture that existed long before the characters of Rudyard Kipling's best-known works, Before the Raj reveals how these writers operated within a web of colonial cities and trading outpoststhat borrowed from one another and produced vital interlink…
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 t…
Introduction: Translocal Anglo-India -- A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere -- Newspapers and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India -- The Vagrant Muse: Fashioning Reputation across Eurasia -- Undoing Britain in Bengal -- Tristram Shandy in Bombay -- Ag…
Revealing the vibrant literary culture that existed long before the characters of Rudyard Kipling's best-known works, Before the Raj reveals how these writers operated within a web of colonial cities and trading outposts that borrowed from one another and produced vital interlin…
"Recovering a rich archive of ephemera, author Mulholland studies anglophone writers of British colonial India in the eighteenth century, the era of the East India Company. He shows how regional, rather than exclusively British, newspapers served as a major site for Anglo-Indian…