Literature of Colonial South Asia: A Digital Archive

Tag Cloud: on this site



This is a tag cloud showing key tags and themes in the texts on this site. 

Some thematic tags to explore:

General Topics: Country vs. City, Calcutta (Kolkata), Simla, Education, Zemindars (Landlords), Maharajahs (Kings, Queens, Court), Nationalist Politics, Childhood, Mughal Empire,

Family and Gender issues: Education of Girls and Women, Widows and Widow Remarriage, Property & Inheritance, Polygamy, Adultery, Marital Dysfunction, Child Marriage, Arranged Marriage,

Social Issues: Caste, Disability, Hindus and Muslims, Hindu religious practice, Race/Racism, Religious Conversion, Illness

Other Interesting themes & forms: Unconventional Friendships, Performance, Homoerotic and Queer relationships, Ghostly Reincarnation, Ghost Stories, Hunting/Shikar, Allegory, Storytelling, Afghanistan/Pashtuns/Pathans, 

And here is a network visualization showing that as a network diagram: