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The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines... read more
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Characters/People edit
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- Sarojini Naidu
- Kim
- Indira Gandhi
- Vivekananda
- Ramakrishna
- Muslimness
- Strickland
- Gopal
- Raj Kapoor
- Partha Chatterjee
- H. Sleeman
- Gayatri Spivak
- Nargis
- Gosse
- Sanjay
- Gokhale
- Sunil Dutt
- Lawrence
- Mahbub Ali
- James Sleeman
- Mirza Abdullah
- Nehru
- Anderson
- Davey
First Sentence edit
In "The Adventure of the Empty House" Sherlock Holmes recounts for Watson his ascent from the abyss of Reichenbach Falls after his struggle with Moriarty and proceeds to fill in the blanks of his own history.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Parama Roy (Author)
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- Dewey: 820.9954
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory › Semiotics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Indian
- Books › Reference › Words & Language › Linguistics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Asian
- Books › History › Asia › India
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
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