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"This book focuses on the images of England and the English in Indian writing in English. It explores how, despite their necessary imbrication in the colonial process and the unavoidable transformations in their social and ideological constructions, educated Indians used literary writing to resist their typification and subjectification as passive objects of Orientalist discourses. Texts from the nineteenth century to Indian Independence are read for resistance, assumption of representational authority, appropriation of language and forms, subversion of colonialist discourses, and co-option and complicity. A counter-discursive inverting of the concerns of studies which look at the Western/English representations of India is thus intended. Focusing attention on a surprisingly neglected aspect of post-colonial literatures generally and Indian writing in English in particular, the book analyses the range of attitudes and responses of various classes of Indians to England and the English
