Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Poetics and Politics of Anglo-Indian Romance
Part I: Of Bibis and Begums: Company Affairs in Colonial India
Chapter One: “Half an Asiatic”: William Linnaeus Gardner and Anglo-Muslim Domesticity
Chapter Two: The Home and the Bazaar: The Anglo-Indian Novels of Bithia Mary Croker
Part II: Indirect Rule and the Politics of Romance
Chapter Three: Family Quarrels: The Royal Widows and the East India Company
Chapter Four: Educating Seeta: Philip Meadows Taylor’s Romances of Empire
Conclusion: Why Romance Matters
Notes
Bibliography
Index