Books by Leela Gandhi

Leela Gandhi's Postcolonial Theory is a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms and its intellectual context. The revised edition of this classic work reaffirms its status as a useful starting point for readers new to the field and a provocative account that opens up possibilities for debate.

Illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual discipline.

Illuminates the history of western anti-imperialism through the stories of a number of specific friendships that flourished between South Asians and Europeans between 1878 and 1914.

A provocative and exemplary introduction to the field of postcolonial studies.