Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Translations; Introduction; 1 The French Presence in India between 1754 and 1815: From the 'beaux jours du gouvernement de Dupleix' to Annihilation?; 2 Constructing India as Other: Fiction, Travelogues and Ambassadors; 3 Emasculating India: The Indienne, Feminization and Female Writers; 4 Mythical India; 5 Historical India: Narratives of the Past; 6 The Philosophes, 'Anticolonialism' and the Rule of the British East India Company; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary
Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. This book explores what a European power, territorially peripheral in India, thought of both India and the administrative rule there of its rival, Britain
