Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender.(Book Review)

The Modern Language Review | July 1, 2005| | Copyright

Reading The East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender. By BETTY JOSEPH. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. $45 (pbk $18). ISBN 0-226-41203-2 (pbk 0-226-41202-4).

In late December 1774 Bishnukumari, the rani of the rich Bengali province of Burdwan, sent a petition to the then governor-general of British India, Warren Hastings. In the petition Bishnukumari, recently widowed, informed the governor-general and his ruling council that she was the victim of a greedy and violent plot concocted by her British East India Company-appointed minister ...

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