1. This paper has benefited from the support and criticism of Paul Arroyo, Catherine Candy, Gary Daily, Chandra de Silva, Darlene Hantzis, Mike Kugler, Philippa Levine, Arvid Perez, Barbara Ramusack, Deborah Rossum, Sudipta Sen, Nyan Shah, Susan Thorne, and Jocelyn Zivin. Special thanks to Barbara Ramusack and Kali Israel for their commitment to organizing the Cincinnati conference on ‘Feminism, Imperialism and Race: India and Britain’, which provided the critical spaces within which this paper developed
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