Description: '[A]n important addition to the growing literature on the social and cultural history of British India . . . [the book] offer[s] a knowledgeable and sensitive account . . . [Its] discussion of nationalism and communalism is illuminating . . . notable for its command over literature in several languages, and . . . nuanced reading of texts.' -- The Journal of Asian Studies '[A] very intelligent book . . . carefully researched.' -- American Historical Review '[Sudhir Chandra] presents aspects of [the] 'other' history in his representations of native resistances to colonization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. [He] attempts to recover certain vernacular texts from nineteenth-century India and seeks to create an alternate space from which to represent literary studies in India .' -- Modern Fiction Studies

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