This e-book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India via a analyzing of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 interval.
Arguing that colonial discourse usually trusted aesthetic units to be able to describe and assert a level of narrative keep an eye on over Indian panorama, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics provided a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to build specific photos of India.
Looking in particular on the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the big, the chic, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift within the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s severe unique. English Writing and India offers a tremendous new research of colonial aesthetics, whilst it extends present scholarship at the modes of early British representations of latest lands and cultures.
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