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NEW SCHOLARSHIP ON VICTORIAN INDIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2015

Deborah Denenholz Morse  and
Virginia Butler
Deborah Denenholz Morse
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary and University of Maryland
Virginia Butler
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary and University of Maryland
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A plethora of fine books on Victorian India have been published in the last decade or so, a number of them in the past three years. These works cover a wide range of postcolonial thought: histories of Indian sub-cultures (Bhavani Raman's Document Raj, on scribal culture in the Madras East India company and Davesh Soneji's study of the devadāsī of South India in Unfinished Gestures); histories of English dissident subcultures (late Victorian homosexuals and vegetarians, among those documented in Leela Gandhi's Affective Communities); Andrea Major's epic Slavery, Abolitionism, and Empire in India, 1772–1843, and the erudite and comprehensive Oxford edition, India and the British Empire, edited by Douglas Peers and Nandini Gooptu, a magisterial work that begins with recognition of the “remarkable efflorescence over the past generation” (1) in historical studies of colonial India.

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Review Essay
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 203 - 207
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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