Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Discoveries, Encounters, Spectacles: Colonial Beginnings 2. English Nabobs: Eighteenth Century Orientalism, 3. The Gendering of Empire 4. Shakespeare and the 'Civilizing Mission' 5. 'The Blind Age': Discovering the Postcolonial Nation

About the Author

Jyotsna Singh

Reviews

..."a cogent and combative book."
-Canadian Review of Comparative Literature