Richard Allen is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at The Open University, Harish Trivedi is Professor of English at the University of Delhi.

• Preface, How to use this book 1 Literature and history 2 First encounters: works by Sir William Jones and others 3 The British nation and the colonies: Mansfield Park 4 Literature, nation and revolution: A Tale of Two Cities 5 The White Man's Burden: Kim 6 Poetry and nation: W.B. Yeats 7 Liberal dilemmas in England and India: A Passage to India 8 Gandhian nationalism: Kanthapura 9 Fragmenting nations and lives: Sunlight on a Broken Column 10 A post-colonial world: Look Back in Anger and The Enigma of Arrival 11 Post-colonial hybridity: Midnight's Children, Related Texts, Index.

Richard Allen is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at The Open University, Harish Trivedi is Professor of English at the University of Delhi.

• Preface, How to use this book 1 Literature and history 2 First encounters: works by Sir William Jones and others 3 The British nation and the colonies: Mansfield Park 4 Literature, nation and revolution: A Tale of Two Cities 5 The White Man's Burden: Kim 6 Poetry and nation: W.B. Yeats 7 Liberal dilemmas in England and India: A Passage to India 8 Gandhian nationalism: Kanthapura 9 Fragmenting nations and lives: Sunlight on a Broken Column 10 A post-colonial world: Look Back in Anger and The Enigma of Arrival 11 Post-colonial hybridity: Midnight's Children, Related Texts, Index.

Richard Allen is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at The Open University, Harish Trivedi is Professor of English at the University of Delhi.

• Preface, How to use this book 1 Literature and history 2 First encounters: works by Sir William Jones and others 3 The British nation and the colonies: Mansfield Park 4 Literature, nation and revolution: A Tale of Two Cities 5 The White Man's Burden: Kim 6 Poetry and nation: W.B. Yeats 7 Liberal dilemmas in England and India: A Passage to India 8 Gandhian nationalism: Kanthapura 9 Fragmenting nations and lives: Sunlight on a Broken Column 10 A post-colonial world: Look Back in Anger and The Enigma of Arrival 11 Post-colonial hybridity: Midnight's Children, Related Texts, Index.