Whose India?: The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction
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The author emphasizes the selected nature of the facts provided by historical texts, and demonstrates the historicity of fiction. She calls into question assumptions about the end of nationalism implicit in histories and fiction, which usually describe a battleground on which only ruling-class Indians and British meet. Texts by women, "untouchables" and other repressed groups are examined in this study, alongside the work of such well-known figures as Kipling, Nehru, Forster and Gandhi. The account which emerges is a complicated, multi-vocal and even contradictory one.
Author: Teresa Dawn Hubel
Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 152mm x 229mm, 300 g
Published: 1996, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
Genre: Gender Studies / Gay & Lesbian Studies
The author emphasizes the selected nature of the facts provided by historical texts, and demonstrates the historicity of fiction. She calls into question assumptions about the end of nationalism implicit in histories and fiction, which usually describe a battleground on which only ruling-class Indians and British meet. Texts by women, "untouchables" and other repressed groups are examined in this study, alongside the work of such well-known figures as Kipling, Nehru, Forster and Gandhi. The account which emerges is a complicated, multi-vocal and even contradictory one.