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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Padamsee, Alex (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: British literature.; Civilization-History.; Imperialism.; Asia-History.; Great Britain-History.; British and Irish Literature.; Cultural History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of South Asia.; History of Britain and Ireland.

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...