Uncle Sham: Being the Strange Tale of a Civilisation Run Amok

Lahore: The Times Publishing Company, [1929]. First Edition. Octavo (25cm). Publisher's blue cloth boards; 214pp; illus. Ownership signature to title page, dated 1929. Mild external wear; one binding signature slightly pulled; a Good, tight copy. A strident rejoinder to Katherine Mayo's Mother India (1927), which had created a furore among Indian intellectuals by criticising many aspects of traditional Indian culture, particularly the subjection of women and the inequities of the caste system. The present work offers in turn a broadside attack on nearly every aspect of American popular culture, exposing class and racial injustice, vice, corruption and libertinism (which the author ascribes to the unregulated freedom of American women). Frontispiece portrait of President Herbert Hoover; illustrated throughout with halftone plates.