Representations of India, 1740-1840 : the creation of India in the colonial imagination /
Amal Chatterjee.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
- vii, 237 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical and index.
Chatterjee analyzes how writing over the period of a century justified and was affected by the introduction and extension of British domination of India, demonstrating the link between written representations and the ideological, economic and political climate and debates.