Writing India, 1757-1990

The Literature of British India

• Author(s): B. J. Moore-Gilbert,
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 271
• ISBN_10: 0719042666
  ISBN_13: 9780719042669
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / South / India , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Literary Criticism / Asian / Indic ,

Description:... This volume provides an analytic survey of the literature produced as a consequence of the long history of Britain's rule in India. It stretches from the establishment of British hegemony in the 1750's to the achievement of Indian independence in the postcolonial era almost two centuries later. Writing India concludes with a chapter on Salman Rushdie in order to suggest the complex relation of continuity as well as conflict between colonial and postcolonial constructions of India.