Author(s): Sulipta Tarafdar

Abstract: Ashok Malhotra's “Making British Indian Fictions, 1772–1823"(2012) provides a captivating and insightful examination of a pivotal period in literary history, exploring the dynamic interplay between British literary traditions and India as a construct under the backdrop of colonialism. It looks at the changing relationship between the colonizer and colonized by examining the India narratives (plays, novels and poetry) as historical documents. It examines British literature and locates how it was influenced by the Indo-British cultural encounter and critically analyses representations and misrepresentations of India.

Keywords: Britain, India, colonialism, literature, Orient