The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in India, and: The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India (review)
It was not uncommon for parents to withdraw their children immediately from Duff's school whenever they sensed what they saw as the "tyranny of the Bible." Some parents negotiated their needs in a more sanguine manner. Duff's biographer and former student, LaI Behari Day, records the plan his father had worked out: he would wait for the moment when his son had learned enough English to obtain a decent situation outside but was not yet intellectually advanced to understand lectures on ChristianityÂ—as soon as that moment arrived, he would instantly be withdrawn from school and placed in an office. "Let Duff Saheb do what he can," was the father's defiant challenge to the threat of proselytism. But Duff Saheb was a little more devious than even Day's father imagined .... Â—Gauri Vishwanathan, Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (58)