India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 1754-1815 / Edition 1

by Kate Marsh

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851969944
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Series:	Empires in Perspective , #8
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 The French Presence in India Between 1754 and 1815: from the ‘Beaux Jours Du Gouvernement De Dupleix’ to Annihilation?; Chapter 2 Constructing India as Other : Fiction, Travelogues and Ambassadors; Chapter 3 Emasculating India: The Indienne, Feminization and Female Writers; Chapter 4 Mythical India; Chapter 5 Historical India: Narratives of the Past; Chapter 6 The Philosophes, ‘Anticolonialism’ and the Rule of the British East India Company; Chapter 7 Conclusion;