For centuries, India has captured our imagination. Far more than a mere
geographical presence, India is also an imaginative construct shaped by
competing cultures, emotions, and ideologies. In "Whose India"? Teresa Hubel
examines literary and historical texts by the British and Indian writers who
gave meaning to the construct "India" during the final decades of the Empire.
Feminist and postcolonial in its approach, this work describes the contest
between British imperialists and Indian nationalists at that historical moment
when India sought to achieve its independence; that is, when the definition,
acquisition, and ownership of India was most vehemently at stake.
Hubel collapses the boundary between literature and history