The poetics and politics of Anglo-Indian romance -- "Half an Asiatic" : William Linneaus Gardner and Anglo-Muslim domesticity -- The home and the bazaar : the Anglo-Indian novels of Bithia Mary Croker -- Family quarrels : the royal widows and the East India Company -- Educating Seeta : Philip Meadows Taylor's romances of empire -- Why romance matters
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-157) and index