description: Drawing upon a wide range and variety of literary and non-literary sources of 19th century British India, 'Woman and Empire' examines perceptions of gender over the 1858-1900 period. The book focuses on representations of white and Indian women, in addition to women of mixed races, in fiction as well as in colonial newspapers and journals. The book presents detailed readings, which are fresh and insightful, of the fiction of Philip Meadows Taylor, Flora Annie Steel and Rudyard Kipling.
title: Woman And Empire: Representations In The Writings Of British India, 1858 1900
titlecomplete: Woman And Empire: Representations In The Writings Of British India, 1858 1900 (New Perspectives In South Asian History)