Examines the shared cultural genealogy of popular Victorian novels and judicial opinions of the Privy Council.

Disaffected examines the effects of antisedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government beg

Colonial Justice in British India describes and examines the lesser-known history of white violence in colonial India. By foregrounding crimes committed by a mo

Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.

Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations.