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This novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastings's Orientalist government, Hartly House, Calcutta (1789) represents a dramatic delineation of the Anglo-Indian encounter. The novel constitutes a significant intervention in the contemporary debate concerning the nature of Hastings's rule of India by demonstrating that it was characterised by an atmosphere of intellectual sympathy and racial tolerance. Within a few decades the Evangelical and Anglicising lobbies frequently condemned Brahmans as devious beneficiaries of a parasitic priestcraft, but Phebe Gibbes's portrayal of Sophia's Brahman and the religion he espouses represent a perception of India dignified by a sympathetic and tolerant attempt to dispel prejudice.

India --- History --- Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Gibbes, Phoebe. --- India. --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Indii︠a︡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- インド --- هند --- Индия --- In literature. --- British --- Historical fiction, English. --- Literature --- Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- Colonialism & imperialism --- Fiction --- English historical fiction --- English fiction --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Indi --- Indii͡ --- Warren Hastings. --- colonialism. --- epistolary novel. --- nationhood. --- orientalism. --- romanticism. --- women's writing.