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Vibrant and original memoirs of a civil servant in India from 1858 to 1893, telling of rapacious planters, improvised fifteen-gun salutes, lofty Rajas and dissolute Englishmen. Vivid and candid tales from a huge bureaucracy, in rich descriptive prose
The advent of print heralded a significant chapter in the history of colonial modernity in South Asia that led to the emergence of new literary cultures in the region. This book documents the story of Odia literature, in the context of similar but conflicting linguistic-territorial cultures of Eastern India. Through an in-depth study of a large corpus of archival material, the volume traces the development of new literary practices and cultures facilitated mainly by the formation of new public and literary spheres with the rapid spread of European education. While the phenomenon was not unique to Odia, this study identifies several local factors that were distinctive about its literary spher...
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