Seminar reading 

Edward Said, Orientalism (Harmondsworth: Penguin: 1985). Or any edition. Read the first 100 pages.

Ronald Inden, Imagining India (Blackwells: Oxford, 1992), pp. 1-48

Eric Stokes, The English Utilitarians and India (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959).

 

Background reading

Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, Chapters 7, 8, 9.