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This chapter discusses GoattoKali by the British author Cecilie Leslie, a political drama set during the final years of British rule in India. Locating her narrative at a moment of deep crisis, Leslie presents British colonial policy as flawed and Indian nationalism as ineffective. As the chapter shows, by combining the narrative conventions of the middlebrow, the familiar tropes of home and marriage, and a journalistic commitment to fact-based reporting, Leslie challenges and endorses the dominant political discourse of decolonisation.

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‘The Raj Wasn’t Feeling So Sure of Itself’: Cecilie Leslie and the Crisis of Empire

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    2025年

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  • Anne Wetherilt

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This chapter discusses GoattoKali by the British author Cecilie Leslie, a political drama set during the final years of British rule in India. Locating her narrative at a moment of deep crisis, Leslie presents British colonial policy as flawed and Indian nationalism as ineffective. As the chapter shows, by combining the narrative conventions of the middlebrow, the familiar tropes of home and marriage, and a journalistic commitment to fact-based reporting, Leslie challenges and endorses the dominant political discourse of decolonisation.