Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement 9780824860288

Out of Bounds focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces—jungles, cantonments, cities

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Colonial Space, Anglo-Indian Perspectives
Chapter 1. “I Want to Send India to England”: The Aesthetics of Landscape and the Colonial Home
Chapter 2. Hills Kinder Than Plains? Kipling’s Monstrous Hill Station
Chapter 3. “Out of Bounds”: Clubs, Cantonments, Plains
Chapter 4. Savage City: Locating Colonial Modernity
Chapter 5. Medical Topography in Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters
Chapter 6. The Engineers′ Revenge, the Age of Kali: Kipling’s Bridges and the End of Jungles
Chapter 7. Man-Eaters of Kumaon and Jim Corbett’s Jungle Idiom
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

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