Before the Raj: Writing Early Anglophone India

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Spelling and Usage
Introduction: Translocal Anglo-India
	Translocal Regionalism in Anglo-India
	Oceanic to Regional
	Middle  Reading
	Bad Writing, Normal Literature, Boring Things
1. A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere
	Why Now? 1765–1819
	Who Were the Anglo-Indians?
	Printers, Patrons, Readers, and Libraries
	Sponsorship and Censorship
	Making a Colonial  Public Sphere
2. Newspaper Poetry and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India
	Poetry and the Business of Newspapers
	Multilingual Reading Publics
	Punch Houses, Hookahs, and Cheroots
	Literature’s Infrastructure and the History of Conventional Forms
3. The Vagrant Muse: Making Reputation across Eurasia
	Reading Charlotte Smith in Canton
	Parnassus in Madras
	Ruins, Relics, and the Near Eastern Past
	Collaboration and Interimperial Assemblages
4. Undoing Britain in Bengal
	A “British Brahma”: Sir William Jones and the Politics of Translocalism
	Rediscovering Liberty
	A Della Cruscan in Calcutta
	Forgetting Asia
5. Tristram Shandy in Bombay
	Metropolitical Empire
	Oriental Traits
	Rewriting Tristram Shandy in Bombay
	“Children of the Sun”
6. Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767–1799
	Mercenaries of Imperial Emotion and the Spectacle of the Jailed Author
	Prison Poetry and Antiwar Sentiments
	The Dancing Boys of Mysore
	Captivity as Social Regeneration
7. Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, and Java, 1771–1816
	The Bay of Bengal and the Geography of “Greater India”
	Outpost Aesthetics: William Marsden in Sumatra
	Multilingualism in the Java Government Gazette (1812–16)
	The “Samarang Hurly-Burly”
	Imitation in Early Nineteenth-Century Java
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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