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

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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Padamsee, Alex (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The devil's sovereignty: plagiarism and political theology in Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King
  • 3. Flora Annie Steel and the jurisprudence of emergency
  • 4. Time and the nation: Mughals, Maine and modernities in Romesh Chunder Dutt's historical fiction
  • 5. Conclusion.

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