ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 examines Freda Bedi's 1944 nonfiction book, Bengal Lamenting. Like Narayan's text, it is wary of appeals to emotion and instead emphasizes strengthening communities. Bedi advocates transnational as well as regional solidarity among colonized people to further the resistance to colonialism and the support of representative democracy. Bedi cautions that emotion can lead to condescension and the construction of a racialized other. Yet, she proposes that solidarity in times of crisis ought to express itself in love, which does not require shared experience or full understanding of the subject. Her work is a study in the ethics of emotion and the possibilities of representation.
