The audacious raconteur : sovereignty and storytelling in colonial India /
"The Audacious Raconteur tells the story of how between 1868 and 1930, four unknown Indian raconteurs, who were political subjects of a colonial regime, audaciously claimed sovereignty through their rambunctious storytelling and put empire in its place"--
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "An Acre of Ground"
- The Ruse of Colonial Modernity : Anna Liberata de Souza
- The History of the English Empire as a Fall : P.V. Ramaswami Raju
- The Subjective Scientific Method : M.N. Venkataswami
- The Irony of the "Native Scholar" : S.M. Natesa Sastri
- Conclusion : The Sovereign Self.