From Little London to Little Bengal: Religion, Print, and Modernity in Early British India, 1793-1835

by Daniel E. White

How literary and religious traffic between Bengal and Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries impelled a complex and contested cosmopolitan imperial culture.

From Little London to Little Bengal traces the traffic in culture between Britain and India during the Romantic period. To some, Calcutta appeared to be a "Little London," while in London itself an Indianized community of returned expatriates was emerging as "Little...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421411644
• ISBN13: 9781421411644
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher