9. Contesting the Zenana

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Foreword xi
4. Preface xvii
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. introduction. Imperial Optics 1
7. Part I. home and away
8. 1. Rules of Thumb 27
9. 2. Who Needs the Nation? 41
10. 3. Thinking beyond the Boundaries 56
11. 4. Déjà Vu All over Again 68
12. 5. When Was Britain? 77
13. 6. Archive Stories 94
14. 7. Gender, Colonialism, and Feminist Collaboration 106
15. Part II. theory into practice
16. 8. Fearful Bodies into Disciplined Subjects 123
17. 9. Contesting the Zenana 151
18. 10. Recapturing Jane Eyre 174
19. 11. From Child Bride to ‘‘Hindoo Lady" 184
20. 12. Tongues Untied 214
21. 13. India Inc.? 241
22. 14. New Narratives of Imperial Politics in the Nineteenth Century 257
23. Coda. empire of ⁄and the world?
24. Getting Outside of the Global 275
25. Afterword 293
26. Notes 303
27. Index 381