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100 1 _aPrasad, Leela,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Audacious Raconteur
_bSovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India /
_cLeela Prasad.
264 1 _bCornell University Press,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (1 online resource)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : "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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aImperialism in literature.
650 0 _aPolitics and literature
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPolitics and literature
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aStorytelling
_xPolitical aspects
_zIndia.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y19th century.
651 0 _aIndia
_xIntellectual life
_y20th century.
651 0 _aIndia
_xIntellectual life
_y19th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
776 1 8 _iPrint version:
_tThe audacious raconteur
_dIthaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
_z9781501752278
_w(DLC) 2020005702
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/78582/
999 _c27194
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