Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix Introduction 1 1 Colonial Anxieties and the Fiction of Intrigue 17 2 Imperial Intrigue in an English Country House 34 3 Sherlock Holmes and "the Cesspool of Empire": The Return of the Repressed 63 4 The Fiction of Counterinsurgency 86 5 Intermezzo: Postcolonial Modernity and the Fiction of Intrigue 122 6 Police and Postcolonial Rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason 140 7 "Deep in Blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the Representation of State Violence in India 167 8 "The Unhistorical Dead": Violence, History, and Narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost 192 Conclusion "Power Smashes Into Private Lives": Cultural Politics in the New Empire 217 NOTES 231 INDEX 269