Ebook: Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India

Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is also the author of Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief, which won the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association, the James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association of America, and the Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Prize awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. She is the coeditor of the series South Asia Across the Disciplines, published jointly by the university presses of Columbia, Chicago, and California.