Abstract
A plethora of fine bookson 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'sDocument Raj, on scribal culture in the Madras East India company and Davesh Soneji's study of the devadāsī of South India inUnfinished Gestures); histories of English dissident subcultures (late Victorian homosexuals and vegetarians, among those documented in Leela Gandhi'sAffective Communities); Andrea Major's epicSlavery, 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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