Book Review: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India

Abstract

nial fiction changed in the light of the social, cultural, economic and political upheavals of the 1930s and 1940s – including increasing imperial anxiety and decline. However, Paxton’s multidisciplinary approach (including historical, political, economic and cultural perspectives as well as British literature and critical theory), together with her concern with issues of gender, sexuality, colonial discourse and the significance of the colonial contact zone, means that Writing Under the Raj is an interesting and wide-ranging book which will be of relevance to a broad field of readers, geographers included, particularly those involved with feminist and postcolonial debates.