Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Neocolonial Conditions of Reading -- Feminism and a Colonial Scene of Writing -- Subaltern Forms of Knowledge -- Wild Anthropology -- 2. The Rise of Women in an Age of Progress -- Fictions of Female Authority -- Slave as Emancipator -- Sati as Feminine Ideal -- 3. The Civilizing Mission Disfigured -- The Truth-Effects of Fiction -- Judith of Cawnpore -- The Rani of Jhansi -- 4. The Rise of Memsahibs in an Age of Empire: On the Face of the Waters -- New Woman in the Colonial Text -- Reading for Feminist Plots -- The Subject of Sati -- 5. The Unspeakable Limits of Civility: A Passage to India -- The Indeterminacies of Rape -- Other Plottings, Stories Not Told -- 6. The Ruins of Time: The Jewel in the Crown -- The Raj Nostalgia Mode -- To Speak Allegorically, to Speak of Rape Otherwise -- A Return to the "House of the Ladies" -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.