On the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries – the heyday of the British Raj – EH Aitken, the well-known Anglo-Indian writer of natural history, made an alluring statement in his book The Naturalist on ...

Look at the syllabus of any 20th century Literature course and it will probably have a section on "post-colonial" writing. The term is used to describe literature which addresses the experience of ...

Indian fiction has come a long way from the era of examining the history of colonialism, and now takes in more culturally diverse themes, says Paul Sharrad. CHENNAI: Indian fiction has come a long way ...

Preface -- The allegorical structure of colonial desire -- Fear and love: two versions of Protestant ambivalence -- Forging the nation: the Irish problem -- Preaching the nation -- Love and shame: ...