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Hartly House, Calcutta : Phebe Gibbes

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This novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastings's Orientalist government, Hartly House, Calcutta (1789) represents a dramatic delineation of the Anglo-Indian encounter. The novel constitutes a significant intervent...

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ISBN: 9781526134370 9781526134363
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2019
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