In Crime and Empire, Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee examines a wide range of nineteenth-century British fictions about crime in India--from writers such as Wilkie Collins, Walter Scott, and Conan Doyle to historical, parliamentary, and medical narratives.
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"Mukherjee offers an insightful study of the changing ways in which the discourse of crime was employed to understand, imagine, and rule India during the greater part of the nineteenth century."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
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Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is a Lecturer in the School of English, University of Newcastle.
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'The problematic of empire', write Hardt and Negri in their recent influential work Empire, 'is determined in the first place by one simple fact that there is world order. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Parliamentary Papers, East India Company, Philip Meadows Taylor, Wilkie Collins, Fraser's Magazine, Select Committee, Lady Audley, Azrael Pande, Ameer Ali, Ezra Jennings, Indian Mutiny, Ralph Darnell, Reconstructing the Criminal, Blackwood's Magazine, British India, Ranajit Guha, Robert Audley, Hyder Ali, New Delhi, Representing the Mutiny, Lucy Audley, Michel Foucault, Pahar Singh, Robert Clive, Shifting Images New!
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'The problematic of empire', write Hardt and Negri in their recent influential work Empire, 'is determined in the first place by one simple fact that there is world order. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Parliamentary Papers, East India Company, Philip Meadows Taylor, Wilkie Collins, Fraser's Magazine, Select Committee, Lady Audley, Azrael Pande, Ameer Ali, Ezra Jennings, Indian Mutiny, Ralph Darnell, Reconstructing the Criminal, Blackwood's Magazine, British India, Ranajit Guha, Robert Audley, Hyder Ali, New Delhi, Representing the Mutiny, Lucy Audley, Michel Foucault, Pahar Singh, Robert Clive, Shifting Images New!
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- Parliamentary Papers (House of Commons and Command): Sessional Index for Session 1984-85: [Hc]: [1984-85]: House of Commons Papers: [1984-85] by Great Britain on 9 pages
- Ralph Darnell by Philip M. Taylor on 7 pages
- Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context) (Oxford World's Classics) by Lyn Pykett on 7 pages
- Paul Clifford by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton on 5 pages
- Paul Clifford (Dodo Press) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton on 4 pages
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- Postcolonial Postmortems (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft S.) by Susanne Muhleisen (Editor) Christine Matzke (Editor) on page 101, and Back Matter
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