TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gauri Viswanathan
AU  - Gauri Viswanathan
TI  - Masks of Conquest:  : Literary Study and British Rule in India
SN  - 9780231171694
U1  - 420.71054 VIS 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York 
PB  - : Columbia University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - English literature -- Study and teaching -- India -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Politics and literature -- India -- History -- 19th century
N1  -  1. The Beginnings of English Literary Study 
2. Praeparatio Evangelica
3. "One Power, One Mind" 
4. Rewriting English 
5. Lessons of History 
6. The Failure of English 
7. Conclusion
N2  - A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or inattentively to the imperial contexts in which the discipline first articulated its mission
ER  -