2023
DOI: 10.4000/cve.12760
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‘Poor little princess’: Queen Victoria’s Court as a Site of Imperial Conquest

Abstract: This essay illuminates the elusive and messy archives of an unusual presence in the Victorian court, that of Princess Victoria Gouramma (1841‒1864), daughter of the deposed King of Coorg, Chikka Virarajendra and goddaughter and namesake of Queen Victoria. The messy and circuitous archives of Gouramma reveal the story of a colonized, racialized, exteriorized colonial subject becoming an ornamental interior of the Empire. Gouramma had found herself in 1850s England, displaced from her homeland and culture, angli… Show more

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