Cross-dressing and Empowerment in Anglo-Indian Fiction:Embracing Subaltern Invisibility by Jaine CHEMMACHERY

“…In several works of colonial fiction, British characters adopt disguise to escape a potentially dangerous situation or simply to have access to places ordinarily closed to members of the colonizer society. The police officer Strickland, in Rudyard Kipling’s short stories, often dresses as an Indian man to get keener knowledge of Indian customs while escaping the British system of surveillance. …”
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