Book Review: An Empire of Books: The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India

Dalmia Vasudha (1997) The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions. Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-century Banaras. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Gupta Charu (2001) Sexuality, Obscenity, Community. Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India. New Delhi: Permanent Black.

Orsini Francesca (2002) The Hindi Public Sphere. 1920–1940. Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Orsini Francesca (2004) ‘Detective Novels. A Commercial Genre in Nineteenth-Century North India’. In Blackburn Stuart Dalmia Vasudha (Eds), India’s Literary History. Essays on the Nineteenth Century (pp. 435–82). Delhi: Permanent Black.