The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories.

• Author: GEROW, EDWIN
• Position: Review

The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories, Edited by SAROS COWASJEE. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. x + 345. $29.95.

Nostalgia freaks (perhaps even a few subalternists) will appreciate this collection of short stories (mostly by English authors) that span the sixty-year period from about 1890 to 1950 and, obviously, are set in India. A good bit of space is devoted to less well known writers, many among them women, such as Flora Steel and Alice Perrin, but the "greats" are not neglected--Kipling and Orwell are there, as are Leonard Woolf and Philip Mason (alias...