Colonial India in Children’s Literature

Adjunct Professor of English Supriya Goswami explores the intersections of children’s literature and defining historical moments in colonial India. Through the works of Mary Sherwood, Barbara Hofland, Sara Jeanette Duncan, Rudyard Kipling, Upendrakishore Ray, and Sukumar Ray, Goswami argues that nineteenth-century British and Anglo-Indian children’s texts reflect two distinct moods in Britain’s colonial dominance in India.