Acknowledgements
Introduction
I SETTING THE STAGE
A Biographical Sketch of the Early Years
1.1 Early Poetic Works: Niti Vinod and The Indian Muse in English Garb—Language Politics at Play in Late-19th-Century Western India
1.2 The Birth of the Indian Spectator and an Overview of Other Collections of Poetry
1.3 The Development of Malabari as Journalist, Reformer, and ‘Interpreter’
1.4 The Translation of Max Muller’s Hibbert Lectures
II GUJARAT AND THE GUJARATIS
The Reformer-as-Ethnographer and Creator of the Template Colonial Textbook
2.1 Malabari’s Engagement with the Life and Work of Gujarati Reformer Karsandas Mulji
2.2 Readings on the ‘Present Condition’ of Mahomedans, and an Exercise in Iterations of Gujarati History
2.3 A Parsi on ‘Parsis’: Traversing the Discursive Field of the Internal Reform Movement, Malabari’s Arrival on the ‘National’ Scene, and his Engagement with Parsi Modernity
2.4 Loyalty to the Creed of Empire: Malabari on the ‘Ideal’ Colonial Subject, and Sketches’ from the Lives of Gujaratis
III ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ‘WOMEN’S QUESTION’
From the Rukhmabai Case and Notes, to the Passing of the Age of Consent Act (1884–1891)
3.1 Dadaji Vs. Rukhmabai
3.2 The Impact of Malabari’s Notes on Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood
3.3 ‘The Surat Widow’s Appeal’: Tensions Inherent to a Male Reformer Engaging with Women’s Groups
3.4 A Study in Contrast: English Women and ‘The Maiden Tribute of Babylon’
3.5 ‘An Appeal from the Daughters of India’
IV THE INDIAN EYE ON ENGLISH LIFE
Reversing the Colonial Gaze
4.1 The Eye in Conversation with its Forebears
4.2 Malabari in the Metropolis
4.3 Movement and Mobility: The High Cost of Living in the ‘Heart of Empire’
4.4 Malabari’s Reading of English Women: An Engagement with the Nascent Suffragette Movement
4.5 Reading England and Locating Englishness in ‘the Streets and Shops’ of the Metropole, Including an Analysis of ‘Public Life’
4.6 The Eye Turns to Europe
V THE PAMPHLETS RE-CONSIDERED
The Indian Problem, and India in 1897
Conclusion: Sedition Charge as Recompense for a Lifetime’s Loyalty
Appendix: Native Publications in India—Charge against Mr Malabari
Bibliography
Index