Th e literature on the relationship between Victorian England and imperial India is growing with a welcome contribution from Subaltern Study scholars. Th e latter increasingly emphasize the dynamics, the bilateral relationship between the two societies. Previous assumptions of the passive role of indigenous peoples in those processes have been overturned by varied empirical Scholars are increasingly turning their gaze to questions of empire, colonialism and postcolonialism, in order to provide an understanding of imperialism, and to the dynamics of imperialist technologies to the colonial project
