CSA Lecture Series

In 1877, a Gujarati translation of Queen Victoria’s Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands was published in Bombay. The translator was a young Parsi named Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree, who two decades later went on to fame (or notoriety) as the second Indian member of the British Parliament. McLeod’s talk uses Bhownaggree’s book to explore the nature of identity and political sentiment in Victorian India, and in the process complicates our understanding of Indian history.