The imperishable empire: A study of British fiction on India [Hardcover]

Rashna B Singh (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 287 pages
• Publisher: Three Continents Press (1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894103423
• ISBN-13: 978-0894103421
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,594,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Rashna Batliwala Singh was born and raised in India, where she received her B.A. (Honours) degree in English and Political Science from the University of Calcutta. She received her M.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Singh is the author of The Imperishable Empire: British Fiction on India (Three Continents Press, 1988) and Goodly is Our Heritage: Children's Literature, Empire, and the Certitude of Character (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). She has contributed to Asian American Playwrights: A Biobibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 2002) and to the Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture: (ABC-CLIO, 2008). Singh is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and conference papers on issues in British colonial and postcolonial literature, as well as multicultural and pedagogical issues. Rashna Singh was selected as a "Colorado Voices" columnist by The Denver Post in 2004. In 2003 she received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Grant to participate in an institute on "Representations of the Other: Jews in Medieval Christendom" at Oxford University. Singh was one of two professors in the state awarded the Massachusetts Council for International Education Lectureship in 1998 and in that same year she was named to Who's Who Among America's Teachers.