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In this book readers are invited to explore a fascinating but neglected field of English letters; the books written by British men and women about their experience in the Indian subcontinent. Over forty individual works are surveyed, covering the time period from when the East India Company began consolidating its powers to the eve of the Mutiny. The author balances generous excerpts from the original texts with her own exegeses to produce a work which offers rich insights to lay readers as well as to professional students of literature, history, sociology, anthropology, and travel writing.

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A Various Universe is a wonderful granary of cultural and social exploration in the India of the late 18th and early 19th centuries...What Ketaki Kushari Dyson captures magnificently is the essential humanity of both the observer and observed...This work is a tribute to the liberal high culture which is humanity's only hope of redemption. Asian Voice

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Ketaki Kushari Dyson has published many titles in Bengali and English, covering genres from poetry, fiction, drama, and essays to literary translation and research-based books.

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