In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and

Examining the rhetoric of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Paxton shows how it reflects basic concepts in the soci

This is the story of the women from the Indian Subcontinent who fought against British imperial power from the 1600s until the independence of India and Pakista

Includes songs by Buddhist nuns, testimonies of medieval rebel poets and court historians, and the voices of more than 60 other writers of the 18th and 19th cen