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Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chcnnai
Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata
Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai
Nairobi Sao Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto
Copyright © 2003 by Antoinette Burton
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Parts of chapter 2 were published originally as “House/Daughter/Nation: Interiority,
Architecture and Historical Imagination in Janaki Majumdar’s ‘Family History,’” Journal
of Asian Studies 56, 4 (November 1997): 92 1–46, and arc reprinted with permission.
Parts of chapter 3 were published originally as “‘The Purdahnashin in Her Setting’:
Colonial Modernity and the Zenana in Cornelia Sorahji’s Memoirs,” Feminist lievieio 65
(Summer 2000): 145–58, and are reprinted with permission.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burton, Antoinette M., 1961–
Dwelling in the archive : women writing house, home, and history
in late colonial India / Antoinetle Burton.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
ISBN 0-19-514424-4; ISBN 0-19-514425-2 (pbk.)
1. India prose literature (English)—Women authors—History and criticism. 2. Women
and literature—India—History—20th century. 3. Women—India—Biography—History and
criticism. 4. Majumdar, Janaki Agnes Penelope, 1886–1963. Family history. 5. Hosain,
Attia, 1913– Sunlight on a broken column. 6. Sorabji, Cornelia, d. 1954– India calling.
7. Family—India—Historiography. 8. Women—India—Historiography.
9. Autobiography—Women authors. 10. Family in literature. 11. Home in literature.
I. Title.
PR9492.6.W6 B87 2003
8209′55—dc21 2002070077
1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2
Printed in the United States of America
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