During her year as a Townsend Fellow, Priya Joshi, Assistant Professor of English, will work on a book entitled In Another Country: British Popular Fiction and the Development of the Novel in India. A scholar of the “history of the book,” Professor Joshi considers not so much the introduction of the novel into India by the British, but the impact of this colonial intervention on the Indian cultural and social landscape. Based on research in nineteenth-century publishing archives, and in libraries in India, Another Country will attempt to document the failure of British cultural politics in India and the unacknowledged (and unintended) success of colonial readers in shaping Englishness and the canon of English letters in Britain.