Laxmi Moktali

Critic Laxmi Moktali notes that in ES 's version of the doctrine of imperialism, women are the backbone of the Empire. She also notes that ES had a remarkable insider status: that her...

Writing of Savi's attempts to render Indian speech in English, critic Laxmi Moktali cites Sir Walter Scott 's introduction of Indian words about food and dress, for example, as the beginning of an experiment with...

In this memoir ES (herself an Anglo-Indian by birth) richly portrays the life of the Anglo-Indian, as well as her own experience in England after she left Bengal. Her India, as critic Laxmi Moktali

Nancy's travels in flight from the inevitability of love offer ES a landscape on which to depict contemporary political and social concerns. For instance, she portrays the Lodhi Khans, a couple whom Nancy visits in...