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India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 1754-1815
Author(s): Kate Marsh (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 April 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781851969944
- ISBN-13: 9781851969944
Book Description
Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. This book explores what a European power, territorially peripheral in India, thought of both India and the administrative rule there of its rival, Britain.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Utilizing postcolonial theory to understand the importance of India to France, intellectually and politically, is something that Marsh does particularly well, and her focus on the intersections between history and fiction will appeal to historians and other social scientists typically unconvinced by the importance of the imagination to historical subjects.’ H-Net ‘Marsh offers a straightforward, well-constructed narrative that makes two important contributions to the study of empire in general and French imperialism in particular – the first on French India itself, the second on intellectual colonialism in general.’ Canadian Journal of History
About the Author
Kate Marsh
