Meenakshi Mukherjee
Combining valuable empirical research with perceptive cultural analysis, Priya Joshi opens up a new field in the study of the novel. Her meticulous collection of data on the import of British novels in colonial India and the nature of their dissemination and reception provide a background for understanding subsequent literary production in India. The book traverses the colonial and the postcolonial, using tools of historical research and literary criticism to explore areas of cultural negotiation not charted by anyone so far."
Meenakshi Mukherjee, author of Perishable Empire
Ian Duncan
Much more than a history of the English-language novel in India, In Another Country opens up a global field of the 'English novel'well before postmodernity, with influences flowing both ways: between reception and production, between colony and metropole. All scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature will need to reckon with Priya Joshi's innovative synthesis of cultural criticism and book history, as it redraws the map of modern fiction on a world scale.
Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Joshi's research into the colonial archives of the 'book' is extensive and meticulous. The intriguing fact that colonial Indians were such avid fans of English popular fiction is one that has certainly been remarked before but not explored, let alone explained.... Her pioneering research provides answers to many literary historical puzzles, opens up new areas of discussion, and will inspire others to follow into the terrain she has marked out.
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Wolfson College, Oxford University