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Emerging from an interdisciplinary conference at Osmania University, Hyderabad, the essays deal with the diaspora of Australasia and India in particular. They examine the ways in which administration in Australia, New Zealand, Pitcairn Island and India governed in colonial times, controlling and employing the information it collected to further its colonial imperial agenda. They deal with administration of Aborigines and control of convicts in the British ...
There is currently an enormous interest in postcolonial fiction in general, and Indian English fiction in particular. That interest extends to Raj fiction which preceded (and in some cases appeared alongside) the work of Indian authors in English. While the works of such well-known authors as Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster, and Paul Scott have remained accessible, those of lesser-known Raj writers have rarely been reprinted. The publication of this book marks the ...
As interest in postcolonial and Indian English fiction grows, there is an increasing need for a critical re-evaluation of the Raj fiction which preceded, and in some cases was produced alongside, the work of Indian authors in English. Lilamani is the second novel to appear after Charles Pearce's Love Besieged, as part of the effort to publish lesser-known Raj fiction. Maud Diver's Lilamani marks a significant departure from the popular theme, in Raj fiction, of ...
The perennially engaging theme of diaspora has acquired an increasing, even an alarming, resonance in the contemporary world. This collection of writings from Australia, New Zealand, India and Singapore straddles disciplines ranging from Literature, Media, and the Social Sciences to Computing and Library Studies. It is aerated also with insightful contributions from creative artists. The varied issues are probed with unusual depth and perspicacity, partly because ...
A.E.W. Mason's The Broken Road, first published in 1907, is a gripping romance of the frontier--considered the 'real India' by many British writers, and the preferred setting for Raj novels of romantic adventure. Through the relationship between its two main characters--Dick Linforth, scion of a family of empire-builders and Shere Ali, the prince of Chiltistan--it explores the sense of duty that drove successive generations of British men to sacrifice their lives ...