Focuses on the "minor" but resonant career of a woman from India living in the U.S. to investigate political and historical questions about high and low culture, gender, cosmopolitan identity as it relates to empire, and the career of orientalis

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The East as a Postcolonial Career 1
1. Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Education of Santha Rama Rau in the Age of Bandung, 1945–1960 32
2. Interpreting British India in Anglo-America: The Cultural Politics of Santha Rama Rau’s A Passage to India, 1960x2005 71
3. Home to India: Cooking with Santha Rama Rau 109
Epilogue: Cosmopolitanism by Any Other Name 145
Notes 153
Selected Bibliography 195
Index 209

Antoinette Burton is the Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Among her books are the collections Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History; Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (with Tony Ballantyne); and After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, all of which are also published by Duke University Press.