About the Author

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Rita Banerjee is a research scholar affiliated to the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India. She was formerly Associate Professor of English Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She specialized in early modern British drama and has published articles, book chapters, and a monograph in early modern literature and related areas. Her current research interests include travel narratives, early modern literature, historiography, nineteenth- and twentieth -century Bengali literature and culture, women's writings, and Rabindranath Tagore. She has recently published India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives: Protestantism, Enlightenment, and Toleration (Leiden: Brill, 2021) and an edited collection, Cultural Histories of India: Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography (London: Routledge, 2020).