Books written by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

  • The Postcolonial Jane Austen
    The Postcolonial Jane Austen

    ... the French of France is climate and culture, that difference is radicalized and expressed as if it were a question of race.' Aurore Dudevant influenced the Brontes, George Eliot and the poet E.B. Browning; her pseudonym George Sand ...

  • The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India
    The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India

    English literature is studied, at some stage or other, by almost every middle and upper-class person in India. Its importance as a discipline, or as a body of texts, that...

  • The Crisis of Secularism in India
    The Crisis of Secularism in India

    Sen , Amartya . " Basic Education is a Political Issue . " In The Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze Omnibus . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1999 : 104-21 . Development as Freedom . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1999 .

  • Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-independence India
    Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-independence India

    Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold , Listen to the Heron's Words , Berkeley : University of California Press ... in their own words ( see the pun in the title : Heron her - own ) : " one only has to listen to their words " .

  • Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World
    Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World

    ... Mother's Day Protest and other Fictocritical Essays (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016). Brian H. Murray was Lecturer in Nineteenth-century English Literature at King's College London. He is currently editing a new edition ...

  • The Postcolonial Jane Austen
    The Postcolonial Jane Austen

    This volume offers a unique contribution to both postcolonial studies and Austen scholarship by: * examining the texts to illumine nineteenth century attitudes to colonialism and the expanding Empire * revealing a new range of ...