Abstract
This article examines Anglo-Indian romance novels written by British women during the period of the Raj. It argues that these love stories were symptomatic of British fantasies of colonial India and served as a forum to explore interracial relations as well as experimenting with the modern femininity of the New Woman. With the achievement of Indian independence in 1947, British interest in India as a locus for romance rapidly declined, thus demonstrating that these novels were never concerned with India but with British lives and British colonialism.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | History of intellectual culture |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |