Woman and Empire: Representations in the Writings of British India (1858-1900)

Preface. Acknowledgements. List of abbreviations. 1. Woman, ideology, empire: inventing the white woman in nineteenth-century British India. 2. Statis, Bibis, Purdahnashins: Anglo-India and the Indian woman. 3. Gender and ‘Imperial citizenship’: nineteenth-century British Raj fiction. 4. (Re)presenting Chivalric rescue: the novels of Philip Meadows Taylor. 5. Gender and the white (Wo)man’s Burden: Flora Annie Steel. 6. Imagining (Anglo) India: Rudyard Kipling and the construction of women. Epilogue. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.