In the 19th C. India as distant colonial resource moved into closer imaginative proximity and significance for Britain and its literature as Anglo-India—and this continued through the decades of the 20th C. before Indian Independence. Cultural exchanges multiplied over their material base in economics. Readings will be drawn from: selected essays by J.S. Mill on India, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King,” Kim, and selected stories and poems, Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World, E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, and (time permitting) R.K. Narayan’s Mr. Sampath, The Printer of Malgudi. We will trace developments through stages: 1) Political economy and the liberal agenda to the Indian Mutiny of 1857; 2) After the Mutiny—the Great Game and Afghanistan; 3) Partition of Bengal, Boycott, Indian Nationalism at the turn of the century; 4) Pre-Independence of 1947. Readings will be set in historical context—drawing especially on Burton Stein; in context of secondary literary selections (limited scale) covered by report—drawing from Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Dion Boucicault; and in context of selections (limited scale), some covered by report, from postcolonial theory and criticism—drawing from Homi Bhabha, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Bernard Cohn, Javed Majeed, Ashis Nandy, Benita Parry, Jennifer Pitts, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Gauri Viswanathan, Robert Young, Lynn Zastoupil. Film versions of narratives by Kipling, Tagore, and Forster enter the framework of the course. Requirements: initiation of discussion of a primary text; report on materials not read by all; on-going seminar contribution; 12-15pp. seminar paper.