Books by Balachandra Rajan

Spanning nearly two and a half centuries of English literature about India, this book traces the development of an imperial discourse that governed the English view of India well into the twentieth century. It narrates this history from its Reformation beginnings to its Victorian consolidation.

Milton and the Climates of Reading offers timely statements about the ways in which Milton's writings not only addressed their own time, but also speak profoundly and powerfully to ours.