1st Edition

The British Raj: Keywords

By Pramod K. Nayar Copyright 2017
180 Pages
by Routledge India

180 Pages
by Routledge India

180 Pages
by Routledge India

For two hundred years India was the jewel in the British imperial crown. During the course of governing India – the Raj – a number of words came to have particular meanings in the imperial lexicon. This book documents the words and terms that the British used to describe, define, understand and judge the subcontinent. It offers insight into the cultures of the Raj through a sampling of its... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Keywords

Bibliography

Biography

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include The Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique (Routledge, 2016), The Transnational in English Literature: Shakespeare to the Modern (Routledge, 2015), the edited Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology (2015) and the Postcolonial Studies Dictionary (2015). A book on human rights and literature and an edited five-volume collection Indian Travel Writing, 1830–1947 (Routledge) are forthcoming.