Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire

by Mrinalini Sinha

Book Overview

Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an expos written by the American journalist Katherine Mayo. Mother India provided graphic details of a variety of social ills in India, especially those related to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822337959
• ISBN13: 9780822337959
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"