TY - BOOK AU - Prasad,Leela ED - Project Muse. TI - The Audacious Raconteur : : Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India / SN - 9781501752292 AV - DS428 U1 - 809/.8954 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Ithaca [New York] PB - Cornell University Press KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Politics and literature KW - India KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 19th century KW - Storytelling KW - Political aspects KW - Literature and society KW - Intellectual life KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : "An Acre of Ground" -- The Ruse of Colonial Modernity : Anna Liberata de Souza -- The History of the English Empire as a Fall : P.V. Ramaswami Raju -- The Subjective Scientific Method : M.N. Venkataswami -- The Irony of the "Native Scholar" : S.M. Natesa Sastri -- Conclusion : The Sovereign Self; Open Access N2 - "The Audacious Raconteur tells the story of how between 1868 and 1930, four unknown Indian raconteurs, who were political subjects of a colonial regime, audaciously claimed sovereignty through their rambunctious storytelling and put empire in its place"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/78582/ ER -