Strange Familiarities traces epistolary traditions produced within the ethnolinguistic cultures of nineteenth-century Bengal and the North-West Provinces in colonial India. The book provides a close reading of texts and English translations of epistolary literature, selected due to their novelty and radical responses to the ‘postal revolution’ of the time. Through the study of epistolarities, the book also directs the reader’s attention towards cultural histories, especially the conceptual complexity of the ‘subcontinent’.