NEW SCHOLARSHIP ON VICTORIAN INDIA. Issue 1 (6th February 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Morse, Deborah Denenholz; Butler, Virginia
• Is Part Of: Victorian literature and culture. Volume 43:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 203
• Page End: 207
• Publication Date: 2015-02-06
• Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Arts, Victorian -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; 820.8
• DOI: 10.1017/S1060150314000473
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1060-1503

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="text-abstract"> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p> <sc>A plethora of fine books</sc> on Victorian India have been published in the last decade or so, a number of them in the past three years. These works cover a wide range of postcolonial thought: histories of Indian sub-cultures (Bhavani Raman's <italic>Document Raj</italic>, on scribal culture in the Madras East India company and Davesh Soneji's study of the devadāsī of South India in <italic>Unfinished Gestures</italic>); histories of English dissident subcultures (late Victorian homosexuals and vegetarians, among those documented in Leela Gandhi's <italic>Affective Communities</italic>); Andrea Major's epic <italic>Slavery, Abolitionism, and Empire in India, 1772–1843</italic>, and the erudite and comprehensive Oxford edition, <italic>India and the British Empire</italic>, edited by Douglas Peers and Nandini Gooptu, a magisterial work that begins with recognition of the "remarkable efflorescence over the past generation" (1) in historical studies of colonial India.</p> </abstract>