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More literature has been produced on the Indian Revolution against colonialism in 1857 than on any other—the French, American, Russian, Chinese or Vietnamese. Diverse and divided views and critical opinions have marked the continuing debate on this historic resistance movement through several generations. Yet, no conclusive truths have been established. No final answer has been found to questions such as whether the 'Mutiny' of 1857 was basically a ...
How well has A Passage to India worn? This critical anthology responds by putting together postcolonial, feminist, liberal and several other voices of today which talk to each other and talk across each other to the text. The volume interrogates afresh the major characters of the text, polarities between Hinduism and Islam, myths and possibilities of cross-cultural friendships, muddle and mystery of the rape, cultural paradigms of the colony and the empire, and ...