East As Seen By West
Abstract
the number of novels in which the English are either altogether absent, or play a minor role, is comparatively small. In the Anglo-Indian fiction of earlier days India and Indians occupied a more prominent position than they do now. India was then new to most Englishmen, and anything written about a strange country, to reach which it took eight to nine months, was eagerly devoured. Among the early famous Anglo-Indian novelists who wrote novels of Indian life, W. B. Hockley, Colonel Meadows Taylor, Alexander Allardyce, Kipling, and Mrs. Steel, have already been dealt with elsewhere.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Literature: history
themes
analysis
Travel Writing and Literature
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 283–305
- Publication date
- 6 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter