Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Translations
- Introduction
- 1 The French Presence in India between 1754 and 1815: From the ‘Beaux Jours Du Gouvernement De Dupleix’ to Annihilation?
- 2 Constructing India as Other: Fiction, Travelogues and Ambassadors
- 3 Emasculating India: The Indienne, Feminization and Female Writers
- 4 Mythical India
- 5 Historical India: Narratives of the Past
- 6 The Philosophes, ‘Anticolonialism’ and the Rule of the British East India Company
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
CONTENTS
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Translations
- Introduction
- 1 The French Presence in India between 1754 and 1815: From the ‘Beaux Jours Du Gouvernement De Dupleix’ to Annihilation?
- 2 Constructing India as Other: Fiction, Travelogues and Ambassadors
- 3 Emasculating India: The Indienne, Feminization and Female Writers
- 4 Mythical India
- 5 Historical India: Narratives of the Past
- 6 The Philosophes, ‘Anticolonialism’ and the Rule of the British East India Company
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Information
- India in the French ImaginationPeripheral Voices, 1754–1815, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014