The Return of the Mughal: Historical Fiction and Despotism in Colonial India, 1863–1908
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 20953
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-35494-5
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- ISBN
- 9781137354938
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Return of the Mughal is the first monograph (60,000 words) to examine in depth and across British and Indian literature the colonial birth and changing political relevance of historical fiction centred on Mughal history. Its research took five years and draws on primary archival materials for over 80 popular colonial and nationalist novels, historiographical texts and memoirs. Extending literary studies of sovereignty in this period, the monograph harnesses diverse intellectual fields, including colonial law, Indian liberalism and Hindu nationalism, theories of political theology, secularism and empire, and historiography in India from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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