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Ashok Malhotra
is a PhD candidate in the School of History and Classics.
He is writing a thesis on British and Anglo-Indian representations
of India between 1740-1825 in poems, short stories,
novels, travel writing and plays and contextualising
them in relation to the burgeoning publishing market
and the widespread demand for
oriental narratives.
One of the
main focuses of his work is the way in which print capitalism
and reader demand served to inform the recurring tropes
and themes in literary texts about the subcontinent,
as opposed to seeing texts as symptomatic of the coloniser
‘othering’ the colonised.
To which end, this project seeks to
situate fictional portrayals of India in relation to
developments in the book trade in the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries, to the changing demands
of reading audiences in the period, and to emerging
notions of authorship.
Brighton
Pavilion, 1824
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