Priya Joshi

Combining valuable empirical research with perceptive cultural analysis, Priya Joshi opens up a new field in the study of the novel. Her meticulous collection of data on the import of British novels in colonial India, the nature of their dissemination and reception provides a background for understanding subsequent literary production in India. The book traverses the colonial and the postcolonial, using tools of historical research and literary criticism to explore areas of cultural negotiation not charted by anyone so far.

Meenakshi Mukherjee

Much more than a history of the English-language novel in India, In Another Country opens up a global field of the English novel, well before postmodernity, with influences flowing both ways: between reception and production, between colony and metropole. All scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature will need to reckon with Priya Joshi's innovative synthesis of cultural criticism and book history, as it redraws the map of modern fiction on a world scale.

Joshi's research into the colonial archives of the 'book' is extensive and meticulous. The intriguing fact that colonial Indians were such avid fans of English popular fiction is one that has certainly been remarked before but not explored, let alone explained.... Her pioneering research provides answers to many literary historical puzzles, opens up new areas of discussion, and will instigate others to follow into the terrain she has marked out.

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan


	In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (Columbia University Press, 2002)
home research teaching vitae	Winner of the MLA First Book Prize; the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian studies by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association; Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award; Honorable Mention, SHARP Book History Prize Reviewed in: MLQ 66.1 (March 2005) pp. 136-142; Modern Fiction Studies 50.2 (2004) pp. 506-508; Victorian Studies 42.2 (Winter 2003) pp. 333-34; Cambridge Quarterly 33.3 (2003) pp. 288-91; The Journal of Asian Studies 62.4 (November 2003) pp. 1280-1281; Modernism/Modernity 10.4 (2003) pp. 763-764; SHARP News (Winter 2004); College and Research Library News (October 2002) p. 674; Choice Current Reviews (November 2002) 40:1394; Sunday Times of India (Bombay) December 14, 2003, p. 2; Telegraph (Calcutta) May 23, 2003; Hindustan Times (Calcutta) May 23, 2003; Indian Express (New Delhi) April 13, 2003; Mid-Day (Bombay) June 20, 2004. Author profile in: India Today (national edition) March 29, 2004, p. 82; Loksatta (in Marathi, Bombay) February 8, 2004; Outlook, November 3, 2003, p. 90; Sahara Times (New Delhi) December 27, 2003; forthcoming in Asian Age (New Delhi). From jacket cover: In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production, In Another Country vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the once imperial form and put it to their own uses. Asking what Indian readers chose to read and why, Joshi shows how these readers transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. By subsequently analyzing the eventual rise of the English novel in India, she further demonstrates how Indian novelists, from Krupa Satthianadhan to Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial context. Advance praise for In Another Country: Combining valuable empirical research with perceptive cultural analysis, Priya Joshi opens up a new field in the study of the novel. Her meticulous collection of data on the import of British novels in colonial India, the nature of their dissemination and reception provides a background for understanding subsequent literary production in India. The book traverses the colonial and the postcolonial, using tools of historical research and literary criticism to explore areas of cultural negotiation not charted by anyone so far. Meenakshi Mukherjee Much more than a history of the English-language novel in India, In Another Country opens up a global field of the English novel, well before postmodernity, with influences flowing both ways: between reception and production, between colony and metropole. All scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature will need to reckon with Priya Joshi's innovative synthesis of cultural criticism and book history, as it redraws the map of modern fiction on a world scale. Ian Duncan Joshi's research into the colonial archives of the 'book' is extensive and meticulous. The intriguing fact that colonial Indians were such avid fans of English popular fiction is one that has certainly been remarked before but not explored, let alone explained.... Her pioneering research provides answers to many literary historical puzzles, opens up new areas of discussion, and will instigate others to follow into the terrain she has marked out. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Order In Another Country here.