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“Harmonious” Jones and “Honest John” Shore: Contrasting Responses of Garden Reach Neighbors to the Experience of India

Michael Franklin

European Romantic Review, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 119 - 142

Swansea University Author: Michael Franklin

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/10509585.2016.1140046

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The Orientalist Sir William Jones and the Governor-general Sir John Shore were neighbors and close friends in Garden Reach, Calcutta on the banks of the Hugli. Opening with a consideration of their mutual reaction to an imperial neighbor, Bodawpaya, King of Burma, this article explores the differing...

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Published: 2016
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