Contesting the can(n)on: Revisiting Kim in I. Allan Sealy's The Trotter-Nama

This article reveals the uneasy continuum (and gaps) between Rudyard Kipling's canonical Raj novel, Kim, and I. Allan Sealy's The Trotter–Nama (1988), the text that maps the history of Anglo–Indians. The article enumerates the principal themes of Anglo–Indian fiction before demonstrating the way The Trotter–Nama rewrites and resituates Kim, challenging his view of Anglo–India and his assumptions about race, and ultimately repositioning it as part of, rather than the principal work in, the Raj canon. © 2008 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.