Tanya Agathocleous is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College. She is author of Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination.

Through detailed case studies of the periodical press in both Britain and India, Agathocleous compellingly explains how the redefinition of sedition—in terms of loyalty and disaffection—shaped both imperial power in late colonial period and the contours of Indian nationalism. In her careful attention to the circulation of periodicals, in the difficult work she has done in the vast archive of colonial print, and in creating a genuinely comparative theoretical framing, Agathocleous has provided scholars with a truly valuable resource.(Review 19) Disaffected offers an intricate, dynamic account of the way legal culture works far beyond the remit of a legal statute with effects again, intended and unintended evident in our own legal cultures today. [It] is an exemplary work of legal cultural studies.(Modern Philology)

• Introduction1. Affectation: The Aesthete and the Babu on Trial2. Parody: Colonial Mimicry, Colonial Parody, and theMultiplicity of Punch3. Review: Worlding White Supremacy and Indian Nationalism4. Syncretism: From East and West to the Darker NationsConclusion

Tanya Agathocleous is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College. She is author of Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination.

Through detailed case studies of the periodical press in both Britain and India, Agathocleous compellingly explains how the redefinition of sedition—in terms of loyalty and disaffection—shaped both imperial power in late colonial period and the contours of Indian nationalism. In her careful attention to the circulation of periodicals, in the difficult work she has done in the vast archive of colonial print, and in creating a genuinely comparative theoretical framing, Agathocleous has provided scholars with a truly valuable resource.(Review 19) Disaffected offers an intricate, dynamic account of the way legal culture works far beyond the remit of a legal statute with effects again, intended and unintended evident in our own legal cultures today. [It] is an exemplary work of legal cultural studies.(Modern Philology)

• Introduction1. Affectation: The Aesthete and the Babu on Trial2. Parody: Colonial Mimicry, Colonial Parody, and theMultiplicity of Punch3. Review: Worlding White Supremacy and Indian Nationalism4. Syncretism: From East and West to the Darker NationsConclusion

Tanya Agathocleous is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College. She is author of Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination.

Through detailed case studies of the periodical press in both Britain and India, Agathocleous compellingly explains how the redefinition of sedition—in terms of loyalty and disaffection—shaped both imperial power in late colonial period and the contours of Indian nationalism. In her careful attention to the circulation of periodicals, in the difficult work she has done in the vast archive of colonial print, and in creating a genuinely comparative theoretical framing, Agathocleous has provided scholars with a truly valuable resource.(Review 19) Disaffected offers an intricate, dynamic account of the way legal culture works far beyond the remit of a legal statute with effects again, intended and unintended evident in our own legal cultures today. [It] is an exemplary work of legal cultural studies.(Modern Philology)

• Introduction1. Affectation: The Aesthete and the Babu on Trial2. Parody: Colonial Mimicry, Colonial Parody, and theMultiplicity of Punch3. Review: Worlding White Supremacy and Indian Nationalism4. Syncretism: From East and West to the Darker NationsConclusion