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Parts of the introduction and chapter 5 were presented at the 2000 Modern Language Association convention in Washington, D.C. An earlier version of portions of chapter 1 was presented at the 1995 Modern Language Association convention in Chicago. A few paragraphs of chapter 2 appeared previously in “Historical Economies of Race and Gender in Bengal: Ray and Tagore on the Home and the World,” Journal of South Asian Literature 28.1/2 (1993): 23–43. I am grateful to Professor Surjit Dulai for permission to reprint. An earlier version of part of chapter 4 appeared in “Understanding The Palm-Wine Drinkard,” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 31.4 (2000): 33–58. I am grateful to the Board of Governors, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, for permission to reprint. I am indebted to Paula Richman for information on variants of the Ra\ma story, to Tapan Roy for his invaluable help with the Bengali original of Tagore’s novel, and to Lalita Pandit for cogent comments on one chapter and for suggesting the glossary of theoretical terms. Two anonymous readers for the State University of New York Press gave insightful comments that have improved the book substantively. Jane Bunker, my editor at SUNY, handled the manuscript expertly, just as I expected from working with her on Colonialism and Cultural Identity. Finally, I am grateful to Christine Hamel and all those involved in the production process for their fine work. ix Acknowledgments ...

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