India

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2008) Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel PhD, University of Minnesota

Topic

happy ending

Stephanie Laurens

Kapila, Shuchi

(2010) Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

(2014) A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf New York: Routledge

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

(2024) The Representation and Self-Representation of Anglo-Indians in Literature from 1885 to the Present Day PhD, The Open University

Topic

Flora Annie Steel

Maud Diver

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

(2020) "India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler " Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 39-51

Topic

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

(2021) "Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 223-241

Topic

Omissi, Dominic

(1995) The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947 PhD, University of Lancaster

Topic

settings

Palewska, Marie

(2011) "Féeries orientales : l’Inde chez Delly " L’Œuvre de Delly 139-162

Topic

Delly

Parameswaran, Radhika

(1999) Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 49.3:84-105 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1999.tb02806.x

Topic

libraries/librarians

sex/sexuality

Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1994) "Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality " Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IV: International Media 71-102

Topic

national identity

sex/sexuality

Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1997) Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

national identity

Pradhan, Anil

(2021) The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu Runas: Journal of Education & Culture 2.4: DOI: 10.46652/runas.v2i4.48

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Puri, Jyoti

(1997) Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India Gender & Society 11.4:434-452 DOI: 10.1177/089124397011004004

Topic

family

Radhika, P.

(2004) Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s Journal of Karnataka Studies 2.1:

Topic

Radhika, P.

(2014) Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s Indian Journal of Gender Studies 21.1:85-110 DOI: 10.1177/0971521513511201

Topic

psychology

Rudisill, Kristen

(2018) Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India Journal of Popular Culture 51.3:754-775 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12652

Topic

family

Sanyal, Madhuparna

(2008) Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver PhD, Drew University

Topic

Maud Diver

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

race/ethnicity

Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid

(2025) "Post/Colonial Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dinah Jefferies' The Tea Planter's Wife and Before the Rains * " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-8

Topic

(2007) ""I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 129-147

Topic

religion/spirituality

(2021) Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Annie S. Swan

Flora Annie Steel

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

(2022) "Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience " Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

chick lit

Stieg, Margaret F.

(1985) Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times Journal of Popular Culture 18.4:2-15 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00002.x

Topic

(2016) "Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study " The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 83-94 DOI:10.1163/9789004315884_006

Topic

Ethel M. Dell

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Publishing

romances in magazines and newspapers

settings

(2004) Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture 4.1:

Topic

national identity

(2016) "Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid

Topic

(2014) Desi love stories: Harlequin Mills & Boon’s Indian enterprise Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:321-333 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.321_1

Topic