This booklet examines fictional representations of India in novels, performs and poetry produced among the years 1772 to 1823 as old resource fabric. It makes use of literary texts as case experiences to enquire how Britons dwelling either within the metropole and in India justified, faced and imagined the colonial stumble upon in this interval.
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