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ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am indebted to many colleagues, friends, and institutions, and to the patience of my family. I want to begin by thanking Parama Roy who, while at the University of California, Riverside, responded to the first ideas for this project and has since inspired me to apply rigor to the argument. I also thank, for feedback and/or encouragement at various stages, Sukanya Banerjee and Thomas Klein. Colleagues here at Idaho State University have provided a welcoming intellectual environment, and I thank them all. In addition, I thank my ISU students, graduate and undergraduate, who have responded to some of the ideas presented here and have kept me on my toes. I have also benefited from presentations of parts of this project at the following venues: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, London; Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Rocky Mountain MLA Convention, Scotsdale; USACLALS Conference, Santa Clara University; Empire and Imperial Cultures Conference, California State University, Stanislaus; Utah State University, Logan; and Idaho State University’s Department of English and Philosophy Works-in-Progress series. Crucial to an interdisciplinary study of this kind was the professional attentiveness of librarians at the following institutions : University of California, Riverside, especially the Inter-Library Loan office; India Office Library and Records, Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library; Royal Geographical Society Archives; National Archives of India; and Idaho State University, including its indispensable ILL staff. I am indebted to William Hamilton, director of the University of Hawai‘i Press, for his close attention to this project, and particularly to the two anonymous reviewers whose detailed and judicious comments improved the draft immensely (though they cannot, of course, be responsible for any remaining shortcomings). I am also grateful to Managing Editor Ann Ludeman, and to copy editor Terre Fisher for her thoroughness. I am thankful to Phillip Darby at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne, for approving the first version of the manuscript subsequent to the two original reviewers’ remarks, and for his kind attention throughout. I received funding for research from my home institution, Idaho State University , whose Humanities and Social Sciences Research Committee and Faculty Research Committee provided resources for further research and writing. I am especially grateful for this indispensable support. An earlier version of Chapter Four appeared as “The Savage City: Locating Colonial Modernity” in Nineteenth- x acknowledgments Century Studies 25.4 (2003). A much shorter version of Chapter Six appeared as “‘Sanitary Duties’ and Registered Women: A Reading of On the Face of the Waters” in The Yale Journal of Criticism, Fall 1998. Finally, friends and family members made much of this possible in the way of encouragement and sanctuary. Particular thanks first of all to my parents, Gay and Ginny Johnson, for their immeasurable support along the years; my in-laws, Newton (who did not live to see this) and Sumitra Prasangi; and most importantly, Margaret, Nishant, Shirin, and Roshin, who can finally stop asking “When?” ...

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