The Audacious Raconteur : Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India / / Leela Prasad.
"The Audacious Raconteur tells the story of how between 1868 and 1930, four unknown Indian raconteurs, who were political subjects of a colonial regime, audaciously claimed sovereignty through their rambunctious storytelling and put empire in its place"--
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca [New York] : : Cornell University Press,, 2020. ©2020. |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "An Acre of Ground"
- The Ruse of Colonial Modernity : Anna Liberata de Souza
- The History of the English Empire as a Fall : P.V. Ramaswami Raju
- The Subjective Scientific Method : M.N. Venkataswami
- The Irony of the "Native Scholar" : S.M. Natesa Sastri
- Conclusion : The Sovereign Self.